CVE-2025-6004 (GCVE-0-2025-6004)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-01 17:56
Modified
2025-08-01 19:11
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-307 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
Summary
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
security@hashicorp.comhttps://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-16-vault-userpass-and-ldap-user-lockout-bypass/76035Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
HashiCorp Vault Version: 1.13.0   ≤
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