CVE-2025-6004 Vault Userpass and LDAP User Lockout Bypass

What is CVE-2025-6004?

CVE-2025-6004 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault, published on 1 Aug 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) user lockout feature could be bypassed for Userpass and LDAP authentication methods. 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: CWE-307

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-6004?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/hashicorp/vault and vault. It affects 1 product.

Products include Hashicorp Vault.

How do I fix CVE-2025-6004?

Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/vault to 1.20.1 or later.

Is CVE-2025-6004 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-6004 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Hashicorp Vault

• CVE-2020-35192 Hardcoded credentials in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-12757 Improper Input Validation in HashiCorp Vault Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-6000 Arbitrary Remote Code Execution via Plugin Catalog Abuse Critical 9.1
• CVE-2022-40186 HashiCorp Vault vulnerable to incorrect metadata access Critical 9.1
• CVE-2022-36129 Missing authorization in n/a Critical 9.1

All Hashicorp Vault vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-vault-2025-6004, GHSA-qgj7-fmq2-6cc4, GO-2025-3840, MINI-mxhx-w778-v787.