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CVE-2021-42135

HIGH

8.1

CVSS Score

Published: October 11, 2021 at 02:52 AM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:09 AM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorVault

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Severity

HIGH8.1

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.8%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Vault · Hashicorp

95%

1.8.0 ≤ v ≤ 1.8.4

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory 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/

References (1)

x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

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/

CVSS

8.1HIGH[email protected]

Attack Vector: NETWORK
Complexity: LOW
Privileges: LOW
User Interaction: NONE
Scope: UNCHANGED
Confidentiality: HIGH
Integrity: HIGH
Availability: NONE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-269

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