CVE-2020-16250
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Authentication Bypass by Spoofing and Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in Hashicorp Vault in github.com/hashicorp/vault
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=0.8.1,<1.2.5 | 1.2.5 |
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=1.3.0,<1.3.8 | 1.3.8 |
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=1.4.0,<1.4.4 | 1.4.4 |
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=1.5.0,<1.5.1 | 1.5.1 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16250
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#151
- https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/vault
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159478/Hashicorp-Vault-AWS-IAM-Integration-Authentication-Bypass.html
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fp52-qw33-mfmw
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.