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GHSA-VRMR-F2QH-3HHF

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2021-09-02 17:17 – Updated: 2021-08-30 17:30

Summary

Improper use of cryptographic key in wal-g

Details

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."

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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CVE-2021-38599 (GCVE-0-2021-38599)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-12 15:01 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:44

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2349 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/pull/1062	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/commit/cadf598e1c2…	x_refsource_MISC

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