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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2021-38554 BIT-vault-2021-38554EUVD-2021-1586GHSA-6239-28c2-9mrmGO-2022-0632

Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer in HashiCorp Vault

Published Aug 13, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise’s UI erroneously cached and exposed user-viewed secrets between sessions in a single shared browser. Fixed in 1.8.0 and pending 1.7.4 / 1.6.6 releases.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.14 vault 1.7.4-r0 —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling k3d +2 5.6.0-r11 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault < 1.6.6 1.6.6 GHSA-6239-28c2-9mrm
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.4 1.7.4 GHSA-6239-28c2-9mrm
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault < 1.6.6 · >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.4 1.6.6, 1.7.4 GO-2022-0632

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