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Medium· 5.3GHSA-6239-28c2-9mrm CVE-2021-38554CWE-212Published Aug 30, 2021

Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer in HashiCorp Vault

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Affected versions

0 → fixed in 1.6.61.7.0 → fixed in 1.7.4

Details

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.

The fix

No fix commit could be resolved for this advisory (it may reference an issue tracker or a non-GitHub patch). See the references below.

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