HashiCorp Vault/Vault Enterprise up to 1.20.0 code injection

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise up to 1.20.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code. This manipulation causes code injection. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-6000. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise up to 1.20.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at discuss.hashicorp.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-6000 since 06/11/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 1.20.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• HashiCorp

Name

• Vault
• Vault Enterprise

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20.0

License

• open-source

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