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CVE-2025-6004

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-6004 describes a bypass vulnerability in the user lockout feature of HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise, specifically impacting Userpass and LDAP authentication methods. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) allows an unauthenticated attacker to bypass user lockout mechanisms with low attack complexity, potentially leading to unauthorized access or brute-force attacks. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, affected organizations should upgrade to Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 or Vault Enterprise versions 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, or 1.16.23 to mitigate this risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.13.0, < 1.16.23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 1.13.0, < 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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 20th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/hashicorp/vaultFixed in: 1.20.1
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShiftFixed in: cert-manager/cert-manager-operator-rhel9
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShiftFixed in: cert-manager/jetstack-cert-manager-acmesolver-rhel9
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShiftFixed in: cert-manager/jetstack-cert-manager-rhel9
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: external secrets operator for Red Hat OpenShift - Tech PreviewFixed in: external-secrets-operator/external-secrets-operator-rhel9
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4Fixed in: odf4/cephcsi-rhel9
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4Fixed in: odf4/mcg-cli-rhel9
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4Fixed in: odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4Fixed in: odf4/odf-cli-rhel9
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Trusted Artifact SignerFixed in: rhtas/client-server-rhel9
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Trusted Artifact SignerFixed in: rhtas/fulcio-rhel9

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-qgj7-fmq2-6cc4medium

Hashicorp Vault has Lockout Feature Authentication Bypass

Aug 1, 2025
redhatCVE-2025-6004Moderate

github.com/hashicorp/vault: Vault Userpass/LDAP Lockout Bypass Vulnerability

Aug 1, 2025

References

discuss.hashicorp.com / t/hcsec-2025-16-vault-userpass-and-ldap-user-lockout-bypass/76035
Vendor Advisory