CVE-2021-38554
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer in HashiCorp Vault in github.com/hashicorp/vault
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Arch Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Fixed | 1.9.0-1 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | <1.6.6 | 1.6.6 |
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=1.7.0,<1.7.4 | 1.7.4 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38554
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-19-vault-s-ui-cached-user-viewed-secrets-between-shared-browser-sessions/28166
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/releases/tag/v1.6.6
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/releases/tag/v1.7.4
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6239-28c2-9mrm
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.