CVE-2021-42135
Incorrect Privilege Assignment in HashiCorp Vault in github.com/hashicorp/vault
8.1
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.18%
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.
How to fix CVE-2021-42135
To remediate CVE-2021-42135, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.8.5 or later
- —no fix listed
- —upgrade to 1.8.5 or later
Is CVE-2021-42135 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- >= 1.8.0, < 1.8.5
- >= 1.8.0, <= 1.8.4
- >= 1.8.0, < 1.8.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |