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GHSA-6c5r-4wfc-3mcx

Hashicorp Vault has Incorrect Validation for Non-CA Certificates

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2025-6037

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault < 1.20.1 1.20.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) TLS certificate auth method did not correctly validate client certificates when configured with a non-CA certificate as [+trusted certificate+|https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/api-docs/auth/cert#certificate]. In this configuration, an attacker may be able to craft a malicious certificate that could be used to impersonate another user. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.

References

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