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🛡️ CVE-2025-6000 — vault

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-94 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Hashicorp Vault has Code Execution Vulnerability via Plugin Configuration

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-6000 is classified as CWE-94: Code Injection. Input is incorporated into code that the runtime evaluates, so an attacker can have their own code executed.

Affected software

CVE-2025-6000 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • github.com/hashicorp/vault
  • vault

Timeline and source

Published on 11 August 2025 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
discuss.hashicorp.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

github.com/hashicorp/vault has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-94: Code Injection) in other software:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-94
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-08-11
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/hashicorp/vault — —
vault — —

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