CVE-2021-38599
7.5 HIGHWAL-G before 1.1, when a non-libsodium build (e.g., one of the official binary releases published as GitHub Releases) is used, silently i...
Published: 2021-08-12 · Last updated: 2026-06-17
Severity and scoring
- CVSS
- 7.5 HIGH
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CWE
- CWE-754
Affected products
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| wal-g_project | wal-g |
Description
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."
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38599
- [Patch]https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/commit/cadf598e1c2a345915a21a44518c5a4d5401e2e3
- [Patch]https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/pull/1062
- [Patch]https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/commit/cadf598e1c2a345915a21a44518c5a4d5401e2e3
- [Patch]https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/pull/1062
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