CVE-2025-6037 (GCVE-0-2025-6037)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-01 17:52
Modified
2025-08-02 03:55
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation
Summary
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.
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