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SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/vault (GHSA-6c5r-4wfc-3mcx)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 428716

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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.
 (CVE-2025-6037)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6c5r-4wfc-3mcx

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 428716

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/2/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-6037

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/1/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-6037

cwe: CWE-295