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CVE-2021-32074

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-05-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-532

Description

HashiCorp vault-action (aka Vault GitHub Action) before 2.2.0 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from log files because a multi-line secret was not correctly registered with GitHub Actions for log masking.

Affected products

• HashiCorp Vault-Action: from 0.1.0 before 2.2.0 — fixed in 2.2.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: HashiCorp Vault-Action 2.2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-13-vault-github-action-did-not-correctly-mask-multi-line-secrets-in-output/24128
• https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-action/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-action/issues/205
• https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-action/pull/208
• https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-13-vault-github-action-did-not-correctly-mask-multi-line-secrets-in-output/24128
• https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-action/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-action/issues/205
• https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-action/pull/208

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