CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-42135
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-10-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.8.x through 1.8.4 may have an unexpected interaction between glob-related policies and the Google Cloud secrets engine. Users may, in some situations, have more privileges than intended, e.g., a user with read permission for the /gcp/roleset/* path may be able to issue Google Cloud service account credentials.
Affected configurations
• hashicorp vault (>= 1.8.0 <= 1.8.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-28-vaults-google-cloud-secrets-engine-policies-with-globs-may-provide-additional-privileges-in-vault-1-8-0-onwards/ Vendor Advisory
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-28-vaults-google-cloud-secrets-engine-policies-with-globs-may-provide-additional-privileges-in-vault-1-8-0-onwards/ Vendor Advisory