VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2021-42135
CVSS score8.1 HIGH
EPSS probability0.78%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-10-11
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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.
Weakness classification
- nvd@nist.gov: CWE-269
Primary references
- cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Vendor Advisory