FKIE_CVE-2021-38599

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-08-12 16:15 - Updated: 2024-11-21 06:17
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
WAL-G before 1.1, when a non-libsodium build (e.g., one of the official binary releases published as GitHub Releases) is used, silently ignores the libsodium encryption key and uploads cleartext backups. This is arguably a Principle of Least Surprise violation because "the user likely wanted to encrypt all file activity."
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/commit/cadf598e1c2a345915a21a44518c5a4d5401e2e3Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/pull/1062Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/commit/cadf598e1c2a345915a21a44518c5a4d5401e2e3Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/pull/1062Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wal-g_project wal-g *
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