Critical
Security advisory
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 lead to generated GCP credentials being valid for longer than intended. Fixed in 1.4.2.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-12757
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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 lead to generated GCP credentials being valid for longer than intended. Fixed in 1.4.2.
osv:CVE-2020-12757
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-12757",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "CVE-2020-12757",
"summary": "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 lead to generated GCP credentials being valid for longer than intended. Fixed in 1.4.2.",
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"GHSA-75pc-qvwc-jf3g",
"GO-2022-0804"
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:46.624112027Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/vault/"
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 382925,
"published_at": "2020-06-10T19:15:09.647+00:00"
}