CVE-2021-42135

mediumpriority · track · 32OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.008 · 56 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.78% (56th) EPSS

CVSS 4.9 · medium

Is it mine?

5 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-24

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.

cvss

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

8.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4.9–8.1

v2.04.9mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 6.8 · impact 4.9

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.2

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.17.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-269USprimaryCWE-266USCWE-863US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
hashicorp vault1.8.0 → 1.8.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami vault1.8.0 → 1.8.5osvUSpkg:bitnami/vault
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault1.8.0 → 1.8.4osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault1.8.0 → 1.8.5osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-362v-wg5p-64w2Incorrect Privilege Assignment in HashiCorp Vault2021-10-12ghsa · osvUS
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.
BIT-vault-2021-421352024-03-06vendor · osvUS
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.
GO-2022-0578Incorrect Privilege Assignment in HashiCorp Vault in github.com/hashicorp/vault2024-08-21vendor · osvUS
Incorrect Privilege Assignment in HashiCorp Vault in github.com/hashicorp/vault

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-10-11modified 2026-06-17

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references (4)

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