CVE-2021-38554

lowpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.009 · 60 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.91% (60th) EPSS

CVSS 3.5 · low

Is it mine?

5 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.5–5.3

v2.03.5lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 6.8 · impact 2.9

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.6 · impact 3.6

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-212USprimaryCWE-212US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
hashicorp vault< 1.8.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami vault< 1.8.0osvUSpkg:bitnami/vault
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault< 1.6.6osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault1.7.0 → 1.7.4osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-6239-28c2-9mrmImproper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer in HashiCorp Vault2021-08-30ghsa · osvUS
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.
BIT-vault-2021-385542024-03-06vendor · osvUS
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.
GO-2022-0632Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer in HashiCorp Vault in github.com/hashicorp/vault2024-08-21vendor · osvUS
Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer in HashiCorp Vault in github.com/hashicorp/vault

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-08-13modified 2026-06-17

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references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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