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CVE-2021-42135: hashicorp vault Improper Privilege Management

CVSS: 8.1v3.1HighModified
AliasesGHSA-362v-wg5p-64w2BIT-vault-2021-42135GO-2022-0578
Published 11-10-2021Last modified 04-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2021-42135 is a high (CVSS 8.1) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in hashicorp vault. EPSS estimates a 0.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
33/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.1/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.78%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 11-10-2021
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.78%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

55%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.78% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.78%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Github.com/hashicorp1 product
  • vault≥ 1.8.0, ≤ 1.8.4 | ≥ 1.8.0, < 1.8.5
Hashicorp1 product
  • vault≥ 1.8.0, ≤ 1.8.4

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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