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CVE-2021-38599
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-08-12T16:15:10.533 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:02:25.457

Summary

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."

Affected products

wal-g_project — wal-g

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References

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