CVE-2020-16250: Hashicorp Vault

High severity, CVSS 8.2. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

HashiCorp 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..

Affected products

• Hashicorp Vault: from 0.7.1, before 1.2.5 (fixed in 1.2.5); from 1.3.0, before 1.3.8 (fixed in 1.3.8); from 1.4.0, before 1.4.4 (fixed in 1.4.4); from 1.5.0, before 1.5.1 (fixed in 1.5.1)

Published 2020-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.