CVE-2025-6000 is a critical vulnerability affecting HashiCorp Vault, where a privileged operator with write access to sys/audit can achieve remote code execution on the underlying host if a plugin directory is configured. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.1 (Critical) due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community attention with 8 mentions and 2 media articles, indicating a high level of concern. Organizations are advised to update to Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 or Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, or 1.16.23 to mitigate this risk.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 0.8.0, < 1.16.23CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 0.8.0, < 1.20.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.17.0, < 1.18.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.19.0, < 1.19.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
1.20.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:1.20.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.7 Bluesky, 0.4 Mastodon, and 1.7 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.