6.5

CVE-2025-6014: hashicorp vault Improper Neutralization of Whitespace

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesCGA-c6p2-w9j5-4r52CGA-xc23-vx73-g474GHSA-qv3p-fmv3-9hww
Published 01-08-2025Last modified 01-08-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-6014 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Improper Neutralization of Whitespace vulnerability in hashicorp vault. EPSS estimates a 0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.39%
0%100%
Low · +0.03 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-6QR4-HG9F-8GW4

Timeline

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

Description

Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) TOTP Secrets Engine code validation endpoint is susceptible to code reuse within its validity period. 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

0.39%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

32%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.03 pp

From 0.36% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.39%

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< 1.16.23 | < 1.20.1 | ≥ 1.17.0, < 1.18.12 | ≥ 1.19.0, < 1.19.7 | 1.20.0
  • vault enterprise< 1.20.1
Github.com/hashicorp1 product
  • vault< 1.20.1
Wolfi1 product
  • splunk-otel-collector< 0.138.0-r0

4 vendors · 10 products

References

5 links