Skip to content
Heist/ feed
Back to feed
Medium

Security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-35177

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.4.1 and newer allowed the enumeration of users via the LDAP auth method. Fixed in 1.5.6 and 1.6.1.

Products
Not specified
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2020-35177
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 11:12 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-35177

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 Dec 2020, 05:15 UTC

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.4.1 and newer allowed the enumeration of users via the LDAP auth method. Fixed in 1.5.6 and 1.6.1.

osv:CVE-2020-35177
Complete source record
{
  "id": "90dc486475d4b06d5462460a7c716f1aff8515574cd20d9fc010b33fece89cd9",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-35177",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-35177",
    "summary": "HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.4.1 and newer allowed the enumeration of users via the LDAP auth method. Fixed in 1.5.6 and 1.6.1.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-35177",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-35177",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-vault-2020-35177",
        "CVE-2020-35177",
        "GHSA-rpgp-9hmg-j25x",
        "GO-2024-2508"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/hashicorp/vault",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "340cc2fa263f6cbd2861b41518da8a62c153e2e7"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "5799790292fd6f65b08b63df8e8f0981c29c8d15"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "7ce0bd9691998e0443bc77e98b1e2a4ab1e965d4"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "6d2db3f033e02e70202bef9ec896360062b88b03"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.5.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.5.6"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.5.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.5.6"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.6.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.6.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.6.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.6.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v1.6.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-35177.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:18.039934042Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2020-25-vault-s-ldap-auth-method-allows-user-enumeration/18984",
        "https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#161"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-35177",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 384260,
  "published_at": "2020-12-17T05:15:10.737+00:00"
}