What is GHSA-362v-wg5p-64w2?

GHSA-362v-wg5p-64w2 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Incorrect Privilege Assignment in HashiCorp Vault

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-362v-wg5p-64w2 cover?

GHSA-362v-wg5p-64w2 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2021-42135. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-362v-wg5p-64w2?

GHSA-362v-wg5p-64w2 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.1, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-362v-wg5p-64w2?

GHSA-362v-wg5p-64w2 affects 1 product, including: go/github.com/hashicorp/vault:\u003e= 1.8.0, \u003c= 1.8.4.

GHSA-362v-wg5p-64w2HighCVSS 8.1

Incorrect Privilege Assignment in HashiCorp Vault

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

October 12, 2021

Last Modified

February 1, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2021-42135 →

📋 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 products1

go/github.com/hashicorp/vault:>= 1.8.0, <= 1.8.4

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42135
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/
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#180
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-362v-wg5p-64w2