CVE-2021-43998
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
HashiCorp Vault Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource 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 | >=0.11.0,<1.7.6 | 1.7.6 |
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=1.8.0,<1.8.5 | 1.8.5 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-43998
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-30-vaults-templated-acl-policies-matched-first-created-alias-per-entity-and-auth-backend/32132
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pfmw-vj74-ph8g
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.