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CVE-2025-1293

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-1293 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability affecting HashiCorp Hermes versions up to 0.4.0. It stems from improper validation of JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) when using the AWS ALB authentication mode. This flaw could allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain unauthorized access, leading to high confidentiality impact and low integrity impact, as indicated by its CVSS score of 8.2. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability. The issue was resolved in Hermes version 0.5.0.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:hermes:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.2HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
4.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 7th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/hashicorp-forge/hermesFixed in: 0.5.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-vxm9-8mfw-vc6ghigh

Hermes improperly validates a JWT

Feb 20, 2025

References

discuss.hashicorp.com / t/hcsec-2025-03-hashicorp-hermes-improperly-validates-aws-alb-jwts-which-may-lead-to-authentication-bypass/73371
Vendor Advisory