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Medium· 5.3GHSA-qgj7-fmq2-6cc4 CVE-2025-6004CWE-307Published Aug 1, 2025

Hashicorp Vault has Lockout Feature Authentication Bypass

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Affected versions

1.13.0 → fixed in 1.20.1

Details

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.

The fix

No fix commit could be resolved for this advisory (it may reference an issue tracker or a non-GitHub patch). See the references below.

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