CVE-2025-6013

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 8.1 High

Status

Analyzed - security@hashicorp.com

Published

2025-08-06

Last modified

2026-02-26

Weaknesses

CWE-156

Affected products

• Vault (Hashicorp)
• Vault Enterprise (Hashicorp)

References

• https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-20-vault-ldap-mfa-enforcement-bypass-when-using-username-as-alias/76092