hashicorp-forge/hermes · Security
Hermes improperly validates a JWT
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-vxm9-8mfw-vc6g
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-1293
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 8.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Description
Hermes versions up to 0.4.0 improperly validated the JWT provided when using the AWS ALB authentication mode, potentially allowing for authentication bypass. This vulnerability, CVE-2025-1293, was fixed in Hermes 0.5.0.
CWEs
- CWE-1390 · Weak Authentication
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1293 ↗
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-03-hashicorp-hermes-improperly-validates-aws-alb-jwts-which-may-lead-to-authentication-bypass/73371 ↗
- https://github.com/hashicorp-forge/hermes/commit/e36d479616099bd0c8dfde6786ea671f112d9106 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vxm9-8mfw-vc6g ↗