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CVE-2025-6037
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2025-08-01T18:15:57.300 · Last modified 2026-06-17T10:01:02.560

Summary

Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) TLS certificate auth method did not correctly validate client certificates when configured with a non-CA certificate as [+trusted certificate+|https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/api-docs/auth/cert#certificate]. In this configuration, an attacker may be able to craft a malicious certificate that could be used to impersonate another user. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.

Affected products

hashicorp — vault

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References

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