CVE-2025-6013

high

Description

Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) ldap auth method may not have correctly enforced MFA if username_as_alias was set to true and a user had multiple CNs that are equal but with leading or trailing spaces. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.2 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.2, 1.19.8, 1.18.13, and 1.16.24.

References

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7rx2-769v-hrwf

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2025-23817

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-20-vault-ldap-mfa-enforcement-bypass-when-using-username-as-alias/76092

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-06

Updated: 2025-12-15

Named Vulnerability: GO-2025-3848Named Vulnerability: GHSA-7rx2-769v-hrwf

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00502