Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer in HashiCorp Vault in github.com/hashicorp/vault
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Affected versions
0 → fixed in 1.6.61.7.0 → fixed in 1.7.4
Details
Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer in HashiCorp Vault in github.com/hashicorp/vault
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.
References
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6239-28c2-9mrm
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38554
- WEBhttps://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-19-vault-s-ui-cached-user-viewed-secrets-between-shared-browser-sessions/28166
- WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/vault/releases/tag/v1.6.6
- WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/vault/releases/tag/v1.7.4
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01