GHSA-mwgr-84fv-3jh9LowCVSS 3.7

Hashicorp Vault has an Observable Discrepancy on Existing and Non-Existing Users

Published
August 1, 2025
Last Modified
August 1, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A timing side channel in Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) userpass auth method allowed an attacker to distinguish between existing and non-existing users, and potentially enumerate valid usernames for Vault’s Userpass auth method. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.

🎯 Affected products1

  • go/github.com/hashicorp/vault:< 1.20.1

🔗 References (3)