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CVE-2025-6013

Vault LDAP MFA Enforcement Bypass When Using Username As Alias

Published: Aug 6, 2025Updated: Dec 15, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-156
6.5MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.5%
Top 63.0%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) ldap auth method may not have correctly enforced MFA if username_as_alias was set to true and a user had multiple CNs that are equal but with leading or trailing spaces. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.2 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.2, 1.19.8, 1.18.13, and 1.16.24.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:HUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:HPrivileges Required
High
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-156

Affected Products

HashiCorp
commercial·USaka hashicorp inc.
VaultSaaSSaaS Service
Cloud & SaaS
Vault EnterpriseSaaSSaaS Service
Cloud & SaaS
Vault Community EditionSaaSSaaS Service
Cloud & SaaS
ООО «Ред Софт»
commercial·RUaka red soft
РЕД ОСOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Go
package-ecosystem
github.com/hashicorp/vault
OSS Libraries
and 1 more affected products View all →

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-20-vault-ldap-mfa-enforcement-bypass-when-using-username-as-alias/76092
discuss.hashicorp.com
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-20-vault-ldap-mfa-enforcement-bypass-when-using-username-as-alias/76092
discuss.hashicorp.com
https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/auth/ldap
developer.hashicorp.com
and 3 more references View all →
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