8.2

CVE-2025-1293: hashicorp hermes Weak Authentication

CVSS: 8.2v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesGHSA-vxm9-8mfw-vc6gGO-2025-3475
Published 20-02-2025Last modified 20-02-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-1293 is a high (CVSS 8.2) Weak Authentication vulnerability in hashicorp hermes. EPSS estimates a 0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 26.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
33/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.2/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.35%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14889-1

Timeline

  1. 20-02-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 20-02-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Hermes versions up to 0.4.0 improperly validated the JWT provided when using the AWS ALB authentication mode, potentially allowing for authentication bypass. This vulnerability, CVE-2025-1293, was fixed in Hermes 0.5.0.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.35%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

27%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.35% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.35%

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

Hashicorp2 products
Github.com/hashicorp-forge1 product
  • hermes< 0.5.0

2 vendors · 3 products

References

5 links