CVE-2021-42135

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.

Published: Oct 11, 2021
Updated: May 9, 2024
CVE: CVE-2021-42135
GHSA: GHSA-362v-wg5p-64w2
Severity: High
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: High
Score: 8.1
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2:

Severity: Low
Score: 4.9
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CWEs:

CWE-266
CWE-863
CWE-269

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
hashicorp / vault	1.8.0	1.8.4.x
github.com/hashicorp/vault	1.8.0	1.8.4.x

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

Vulnerability Database

CVE-2021-42135