CVE-2025-6011 (GCVE-0-2025-6011)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-01 18:00 – Updated: 2025-08-01 19:06
VLAI
Title
Timing Side-Channel in Vault’s Userpass Auth Method
Summary
A timing side channel in Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) userpass auth method allowed an attacker to distinguish between existing and non-existing users, and potentially enumerate valid usernames for Vault’s Userpass auth method. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.
Severity
3.7 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
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HashiCorp Vault Affected: 0 , < 1.20.1 (semver)
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HashiCorp Vault Enterprise Affected: 0 , < 1.20.1 (semver)
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