CVE-2025-6013CWE-156

Vault LDAP MFA Enforcement Bypass When Using Username As Alias

Medium · published August 6, 2025

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
41.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) ldap auth method may not have correctly enforced MFA if username_as_alias was set to true and a user had multiple CNs that are equal but with leading or trailing spaces. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.2 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.2, 1.19.8, 1.18.13, and 1.16.24.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00502 · 41.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-156 · Improper Neutralization of Whitespace
Published
2025-08-06T10:06Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 AUG 10:06Z
    Vault LDAP MFA Enforcement Bypass When Using Username As Alias
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