{"id":"GHSA-6239-28c2-9mrm","summary":"Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer in HashiCorp Vault","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.","aliases":["BIT-vault-2021-38554","CVE-2021-38554","GO-2022-0632"],"modified":"2026-01-30T02:51:28.979059Z","published":"2021-08-30T17:22:38Z","related":["CGA-r8mq-qj3f-7fpc"],"database_specific":{"cwe_ids":["CWE-212"],"github_reviewed":true,"severity":"MODERATE","nvd_published_at":"2021-08-13T16:15:00Z","github_reviewed_at":"2021-08-30T17:14:06Z"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38554"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-19-vault-s-ui-cached-user-viewed-secrets-between-shared-browser-sessions/28166"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/hashicorp/vault"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/releases/tag/v1.6.6"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/releases/tag/v1.7.4"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"github.com/hashicorp/vault","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.6.6"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/08/GHSA-6239-28c2-9mrm/GHSA-6239-28c2-9mrm.json"}},{"package":{"name":"github.com/hashicorp/vault","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"1.7.0"},{"fixed":"1.7.4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/08/GHSA-6239-28c2-9mrm/GHSA-6239-28c2-9mrm.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"}]}