GHSA-vrmr-f2qh-3hhf

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / GHSA-vrmr-f2qh-3hhf

    GHSA-vrmr-f2qh-3hhf

    Published: 2 Sept 2021Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026

    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."

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38599, https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/pull/1062, https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/commit/cadf598e1c2a345915a21a44518c5a4d5401e2e3, https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g, https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/releases/tag/v1.1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: github.com/wal-g/wal-g

    Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/wal-g/wal-g

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    GHSA-vrmr-f2qh-3hhf | CVE-DB