Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-6013

Medium

Published: 06 August 2025

Published
06 August 2025
Modified
15 December 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0016 37.1th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-6013 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Whitespace (CWE-156) vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 37.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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1.20.2 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.2, 1.19.8, 1.18.13, and 1.16.24.

CWE(s)
CWE-156

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

hashicorp
vault
1.10.0 — 1.15.16 · 1.10.0 — 1.20.2 · 1.16.0 — 1.16.24

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References