CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-6037

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Aug 01, 2025 | Modified: Aug 13, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.8 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Vault Hashicorp * 1.16.23 (excluding)
Vault Hashicorp * 1.20.1 (excluding)
Vault Hashicorp 1.17.0 (including) 1.18.12 (excluding)
Vault Hashicorp 1.19.0 (including) 1.19.7 (excluding)
Vault Hashicorp 1.20.0 (including) 1.20.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References