CVE-2020-25816 Token leases could outlive their TTL in HashiCorp Vault

What is CVE-2020-25816?

CVE-2020-25816 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault, published on 30 Sep 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 1.0 and newer allowed leases created with a batch token to outlive their TTL because expiration time was not scheduled correctly. Fixed in 1.4.7 and 1.5.4.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-25816?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/hashicorp/vault and vault. It affects 1 product.

Products include Hashicorp Vault.

How do I fix CVE-2020-25816?

Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/vault to 1.5.4 or later.

Is CVE-2020-25816 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-25816 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Hashicorp Vault

• CVE-2020-35192 Hardcoded credentials in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-12757 Improper Input Validation in HashiCorp Vault Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-6000 Arbitrary Remote Code Execution via Plugin Catalog Abuse Critical 9.1
• CVE-2022-40186 HashiCorp Vault vulnerable to incorrect metadata access Critical 9.1
• CVE-2022-36129 Missing authorization in n/a Critical 9.1

All Hashicorp Vault vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-vault-2020-25816, GHSA-57gg-cj55-q5g2, GO-2024-2514.