8.1

CVE-2025-6013: hashicorp vault Improper Neutralization of Whitespace

CVSS: 8.1v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesCGA-cppc-37hm-crfrCGA-rx68-fxg2-77hrGHSA-7rx2-769v-hrwf
Published 06-08-2025Last modified 26-02-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-6013 is a high (CVSS 8.1) Improper Neutralization of Whitespace vulnerability in hashicorp vault. EPSS estimates a 0.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
33/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.1/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.50%
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-957P-RF2V-8M4G

Timeline

  1. 06-08-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 26-02-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.50%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

42%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.50% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.50%

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-1.17< 1.17.6-r20 | < 1.17.6-r23
  • vault-1.18All versions (No fix recorded)
Hashicorp2 products
  • vault≥ 1.10.0, ≤ 1.15.16 | ≥ 1.10.0, < 1.20.2 | ≥ 1.16.0, < 1.16.24 | ≥ 1.17.0, < 1.18.13 | ≥ 1.19.0, < 1.19.8 | ≥ 1.20.0, < 1.20.2
  • vault enterprise≥ 1.10.0, < 1.20.2
Github.com/hashicorp1 product
  • vault< 1.20.2
Wolfi1 product
  • splunk-otel-collector< 0.138.0-r0

4 vendors · 10 products

References

5 links