{"schema_version":"1.9.0","id":"BIT-vault-2025-6037","published":"2025-08-05T08:53:05.016Z","modified":"2026-09-08T08:48:21.255826755Z","aliases":["CVE-2025-6037","GHSA-6c5r-4wfc-3mcx","GO-2025-3836"],"summary":"Vault Certificate Auth Method Did Not Validate Common Name For Non-CA Certificates","details":"Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) TLS certificate auth method did not correctly validate client certificates when configured with a non-CA certificate as [+trusted certificate+|https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/api-docs/auth/cert#certificate]. In this configuration, an attacker may be able to craft a malicious certificate that could be used to impersonate another user. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.","affected":[{"package":{"name":"vault","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/vault"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.20.1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/vault/BIT-vault-2025-6037.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-18-vault-certificate-auth-method-did-not-validate-common-name-for-non-ca-certificates/76037"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6037"}],"database_specific":{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:go:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:community:go:*:*"],"severity":"Medium"}}