CVE-2025-6000

Arbitrary Remote Code Execution via Plugin Catalog Abuse

State: Published
Severity: 9.1 Critical
Published: Aug 1, 2025
Updated: Aug 1, 2025
Reserved: Jun 11, 2025

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.1 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	HashiCorp

Weaknesses

CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code (Code Injection)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VaultHashiCorp	0.8.0 to before 1.20.1Affected
Vault EnterpriseHashiCorp	0.8.0 to before 1.20.1Affectedfrom 1.19.7Not affectedfrom 1.18.12Not affectedfrom 1.16.23Not affected

References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-14-privileged-vault-operator-may-execute-code-on-the-underlying-host/76033

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