CVE-2025-6037

Published Aug 1, 2025

Last updated 7 months ago

Overview

Description
Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) TLS certificate auth method did not correctly validate client certificates when configured with a non-CA certificate as [+trusted certificate+|https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/api-docs/auth/cert#certificate]. In this configuration, an attacker may be able to craft a malicious certificate that could be used to impersonate another user. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.
Source
security@hashicorp.com
NVD status
Analyzed
Products
vault

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
6.8
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
0.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

security@hashicorp.com
CWE-295

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations