CVE-2021-38553
medium
CVSS v3
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
HashiCorp Vault underlying database had excessively broad filesystem permissions from v1.4.0 until v1.8.0 in github.com/hashicorp/vault
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 1.9.0-1 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=1.4.0,<1.8.0 | 1.8.0 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38553
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-20-vault-s-integrated-storage-backend-database-file-may-have-excessively-broad-permissions/28168
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-23fq-q7hc-993r
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Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.