CVE-2025-6004

MEDIUM

Vault - Auth Bypass

Title source: llm

Description

Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) user lockout feature could be bypassed for Userpass and LDAP authentication methods. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.

References (1)

[Vendor Advisory] https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-16-vault-userpass-and-ldap-user-lockout-bypass/76035

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 16.9%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-307

Status published

Products (4)

hashicorp/vault 1.20.0

hashicorp/vault 1.13.0 - 1.16.23

hashicorp/vault 1.13.0 - 1.20.1

hashicorp/vault 1.13.0 - 1.20.1Go

Published Aug 01, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026