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CVE-2025-6011

Hashicorp Vault has an Observable Discrepancy on Existing and Non-Existing Users

Impact

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.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
gogithub.com/hashicorp/vault< 1.20.11.20.1

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
HashicorpVault
before 1.16.23
before 1.20.1
from 1.17.0 before 1.18.12
from 1.19.0 before 1.19.7
Version 1.20.0

Weakness classification

References