What is CVE-2020-12757?

CVE-2020-12757 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-06-10.

How severe is CVE-2020-12757?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Hashicorp Vault

CVE-2020-12757

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 lea…

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.015 (71.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Hashicorp Vault
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-12757?: CVE-2020-12757 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-06-10.
How severe is CVE-2020-12757?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.