Vulnerability Report

CVE-2025-6037

Title: Hashicorp Vault

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2025-6037.

CWE Category CWE-295
Published Date Aug 01, 2025
Modified Date Aug 13, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.8 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.20%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2025-6037: 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.

Impacted Vendors

T
tibco 1
H
hashicorp 1

Reference Links

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-18-vault-certificate-auth-method-did-not-validate-common-name-for-non-ca-certificates/76037
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2025-6037 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.