#VU113690 Protection Mechanism Failure in Vault and Vault Enterprise - CVE-2025-6004

 

#VU113690 Protection Mechanism Failure in Vault and Vault Enterprise - CVE-2025-6004

Published: August 6, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU113690
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-6004
CWE-ID: CWE-693
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Vault
Vault Enterprise
Software vendor:
HashiCorp

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote user to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect implementation of the user lockout mechanism. A remote user can bypass the user lockout feature for Userpass and LDAP authentication methods by varying the cases of characters in the user name when an auth method was not configured to be case sensitive.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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