CVE-2021-36230 (GCVE-0-2021-36230)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-07-20 20:53 – Updated: 2024-08-04 00:54
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Summary
HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise releases up to v202106-1 did not properly perform authorization checks on a subset of API requests executed using the run token, allowing privilege escalation to organization owner. Fixed in v202107-1.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2325 records in the last 180 days details
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