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    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-rk2n-tuu9-fbdc",
    "summary": "HashiCorp Vault underlying database had excessively broad filesystem permissions from v1.4.0 until v1.8.0\nHashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.4.0 through 1.7.3 initialized an underlying database file associated with the Integrated Storage feature with excessively broad filesystem permissions. Fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.8.0.",
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