CVE-2021-21361: Sensitive information disclosure via log in com.bmuschko:gradle-vagrant-plugin

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-03-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-532

Description

The `com.bmuschko:gradle-vagrant-plugin` Gradle plugin contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to the logging of the system environment variables. When this Gradle plugin is executed in public CI/CD, this can lead to sensitive credentials being exposed to malicious actors. This is fixed in version 3.0.0.

Affected products

Vagrant Project Vagrant: before 0.6; from 2.0 before 3.0.0 — fixed in 0.6, 3.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Vagrant Project Vagrant 0.6, 3.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/JLLeitschuh/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-jpcm-4485-69p7
https://github.com/bmuschko/gradle-vagrant-plugin/blob/292129f9343d00d391543fae06239e9b0f33db73/src/main/groovy/com/bmuschko/gradle/vagrant/process/GDKExternalProcessExecutor.groovy#L42-L44
https://github.com/bmuschko/gradle-vagrant-plugin/issues/19
https://github.com/bmuschko/gradle-vagrant-plugin/pull/20
https://github.com/JLLeitschuh/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-jpcm-4485-69p7
https://github.com/bmuschko/gradle-vagrant-plugin/blob/292129f9343d00d391543fae06239e9b0f33db73/src/main/groovy/com/bmuschko/gradle/vagrant/process/GDKExternalProcessExecutor.groovy#L42-L44
https://github.com/bmuschko/gradle-vagrant-plugin/issues/19
https://github.com/bmuschko/gradle-vagrant-plugin/pull/20

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