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High · 7.5 CVE-2021-38599 EUVD-2021-2117GHSA-vrmr-f2qh-3hhf

Improper use of cryptographic key in wal-g

Published Aug 12, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

WAL-G before 1.1, when a non-libsodium build (e.g., one of the official binary releases published as GitHub Releases) is used, silently ignores the libsodium encryption key and uploads cleartext backups. This is arguably a Principle of Least Surprise violation because "the user likely wanted to encrypt all file activity."

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/wal-g/wal-g < 1.1 1.1 GHSA-vrmr-f2qh-3hhf

References