Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Vault Enterprise and Vault - CVE-2025-6000

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Vault Enterprise and Vault - CVE-2025-6000

Published: August 5, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU113653
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-6000
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary code on the host.

The vulnerability exists due to improperly imposed security restrictions. A privileged Vault operator within the root namespace with write permission to sys/audit may obtain code execution on the underlying host if a plugin directory is set in Vault’s configuration.


Affected software

Vault Enterprise
Vault

How to mitigate CVE-2025-6000

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vault Enterprise - addressed in versions 1.16.23, 1.18.12, 1.19.7, 1.20.1
Vault - update to 1.20.1

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