9.1

CVE-2025-6000: hashicorp vault Code Injection

CVSS: 9.1v3.1CriticalAnalyzed
AliasesCGA-f5vg-xw76-ff6cCGA-h8rv-57f2-9mj8GHSA-mr4h-qf9j-f665
Published 01-08-2025Last modified 01-08-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-6000 is a critical (CVSS 9.1) Code Injection vulnerability in hashicorp vault. EPSS estimates a 0.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.1/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.91%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 4
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15434-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15460-1SUSE-SU-2025:02912-1CGA-9CM2-Q4GQ-47X7

Timeline

  1. 01-08-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 01-08-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A privileged Vault operator within the root namespace with write permission to {{sys/audit}} may obtain code execution on the underlying host if a plugin directory is set in Vault’s configuration. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.91%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

59%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.91% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.91%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard6 products
  • splunk-otel-collector< 0.138.0-r0
  • splunk-otel-collector-fips< 0.138.0-r1
  • vault-1.16All versions (No fix recorded)
  • vault-1.17All versions (No fix recorded)
  • vault-1.18All versions (No fix recorded)
Hashicorp2 products
  • vaultEOL≥ 0.8.0, < 1.16.23 | ≥ 0.8.0, < 1.20.1 | ≥ 1.17.0, < 1.18.12 | ≥ 1.19.0, < 1.19.7 | 1.20.0
  • vault enterprise≥ 0.8.0, < 1.20.1
Github.com/hashicorp1 product
  • vault≥ 0.8.0, < 1.20.1
Wolfi1 product
  • splunk-otel-collector< 0.138.0-r0

4 vendors · 10 products

References

5 links