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Servers and applications

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.

Severity
High 8.1
Published
11 Oct 2021
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
HashiCorp VaultServers and applications · cpe:a:hashicorp:vault
  • From 1.8.0 up to 1.8.4

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42135
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-42135