CVE-2025-6013 (GCVE-0-2025-6013)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-06 10:06
Modified
2025-08-07 03:55
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-156 - Improper Neutralization of Whitespace
Summary
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.
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HashiCorp Vault Version: 1.10.0   ≤
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