CVE-2025-6037 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-6037

Vault Certificate Auth Method Did Not Validate Common Name For Non-CA Certificates

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Vault, Vault Enterprise
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: August 1st, 2025
Last Modified: February 26th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-295

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1557 Adversary-in-the-Middle
Credential Access
T1040 Network Sniffing
Collection
T1552 Unsecured Credentials
Credential Access
T1071 Application Layer Protocol
Command and Control
T1565 Data Manipulation
Impact