CVE-2025-6004

5.3 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) user lockout feature could be bypassed for Userpass and LDAP authentication methods. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.3 medium

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

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 38% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-307
Published: 2025-08-01
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

hashicorp:vault

Packages (OSV)

Advisory	Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
GHSA-qgj7-fmq2-6cc4	Go	github.com/hashicorp/vault	>=1.13.0 <1.20.1	1.20.1
GO-2025-3840	Go	github.com/hashicorp/vault	>=1.13.0 <1.20.1	1.20.1

References

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

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