CVE-2021-38599: Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information

August 12, 2021 (updated July 12, 2022)

WAL-G, 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

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38599

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