CVE-2021-42135

HIGH

HashiCorp Vault 1.8.0-1.8.4 - Improper Privilege Management via Glob Policy Interaction

Title source: llm

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.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

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/

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1

EPSS 0.0019

EPSS Percentile 39.9%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-269

Status published

Products (2)

hashicorp/vault 1.8.0Go

hashicorp/vault 1.8.0 - 1.8.4 (2 CPE variants)

Published Oct 11, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026