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🛡️ CVE-2020-16250 — vault

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Authentication Bypass by Spoofing and Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in Hashicorp Vault in github.com/hashicorp/vault

Authentication Bypass by Spoofing and Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in Hashicorp Vault in github.com/hashicorp/vault

Affected software

CVE-2020-16250 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • github.com/hashicorp/vault
  • vault

Timeline and source

Published on 21 August 2024 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
packetstormsecurity.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
www.hashicorp.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

github.com/hashicorp/vault has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-08-21
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/hashicorp/vault
vault

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