Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-38553 - Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault

047910
CVSS 4.4 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
HIGH
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
hashicorp
CWE-281

Summary

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.4.0 through 1.7.3 initialized an underlying database file associated with the Integrated Storage feature with excessively broad filesystem permissions. Fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.8.0.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)