CVE-2020-16250

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-16250
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-08-26 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-29 17:13:00 UTC
DescriptionHashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 0.7.1 and newer, when configured with the AWS IAM auth method, may be vulnerable to authentication bypass. Fixed in 1.2.5, 1.3.8, 1.4.4, and 1.5.1..

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-345 | CWE-290

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Hashicorp Vault All All All All
Application Hashicorp Vault All All All All
Application Hashicorp Vault All All All All
Application Hashicorp Vault All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
HashiCorp Blog: Vault MISC www.hashicorp.com Product, Vendor Advisory
vault/CHANGELOG.md at master · hashicorp/vault · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Hashicorp Vault AWS IAM Integration Authentication Bypass ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 501264 Alpine Linux Security Update for vault
  • 501702 Alpine Linux Security Update for vault
  • 981827 Go (go) Security Update for github.com/hashicorp/vault (GHSA-fp52-qw33-mfmw)

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