CVE-2025-6011

Timing Side-Channel in Vault’s Userpass Auth Method

State
Published
Severity
3.7 Low
Published
Aug 1, 2025
Updated
Aug 1, 2025
Reserved
Jun 11, 2025

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Description

A timing side channel in Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) userpass auth method allowed an attacker to distinguish between existing and non-existing users, and potentially enumerate valid usernames for Vault’s Userpass auth method. 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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.13.7 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NHashiCorp

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
VaultHashiCorp
  • before 1.20.1Affected
Vault EnterpriseHashiCorp
  • before 1.20.1Affectedfrom 1.19.7Not affectedfrom 1.18.12Not affectedfrom 1.16.23Not affected

References

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