CVE-2021-42135

Severity Score

8.1

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

HashiCorp Vault y Vault Enterprise versiones 1.8.x a 1.8.4, pueden tener una interacción inesperada entre las políticas relacionadas con glob y el motor de secretos de Google Cloud. Los usuarios pueden, en algunas situaciones, tener más privilegios de los previstos, por ejemplo, un usuario con permiso de lectura para la ruta /gcp/roleset/* puede ser capaz de emitir credenciales de cuentas de servicio de Google Cloud

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2021-10-11 CVE Reserved
2021-10-11 CVE Published
2023-05-03 EPSS Updated
2024-08-04 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management

CAPEC

References (1)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
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	2022-07-12

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Hashicorp Search vendor "Hashicorp"		Vault Search vendor "Hashicorp" for product "Vault"				>= 1.8.0 <= 1.8.4 Search vendor "Hashicorp" for product "Vault" and version " >= 1.8.0 <= 1.8.4"		-		Affected
Hashicorp Search vendor "Hashicorp"		Vault Search vendor "Hashicorp" for product "Vault"				>= 1.8.0 <= 1.8.4 Search vendor "Hashicorp" for product "Vault" and version " >= 1.8.0 <= 1.8.4"		enterprise		Affected