What is GHSA-vxm9-8mfw-vc6g?

GHSA-vxm9-8mfw-vc6g is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Hermes improperly validates a JWT

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-vxm9-8mfw-vc6g cover?

GHSA-vxm9-8mfw-vc6g covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2025-1293. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-vxm9-8mfw-vc6g?

GHSA-vxm9-8mfw-vc6g has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.2, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-vxm9-8mfw-vc6g?

GHSA-vxm9-8mfw-vc6g affects 1 product, including: go/github.com/hashicorp-forge/hermes:\u003c 0.5.0.

GHSA-vxm9-8mfw-vc6gHighCVSS 8.2

Hermes improperly validates a JWT

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

February 20, 2025

Last Modified

February 20, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-1293 →

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products1

go/github.com/hashicorp-forge/hermes:< 0.5.0

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1293
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-03-hashicorp-hermes-improperly-validates-aws-alb-jwts-which-may-lead-to-authentication-bypass/73371
https://github.com/hashicorp-forge/hermes/commit/e36d479616099bd0c8dfde6786ea671f112d9106
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vxm9-8mfw-vc6g