9.8

CVE-2020-12757: hashicorp vault Improper Privilege Management

CVSS: 9.8v3.1CriticalModified
AliasesGHSA-75pc-qvwc-jf3gBIT-vault-2020-12757GO-2022-0804
Published 10-06-2020Last modified 04-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-12757 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in hashicorp vault. EPSS estimates a 1.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.52%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 10-06-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.4.0 and 1.4.1, when configured with the GCP Secrets Engine, may incorrectly generate GCP Credentials with the default time-to-live lease duration instead of the engine-configured setting. This may lead to generated GCP credentials being valid for longer than intended. Fixed in 1.4.2.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.52%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

74%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.52% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
1.52%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Github.com/hashicorp1 product
  • vault-plugin-secrets-gcp< 0.6.2
Hashicorp1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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