# CVE-2025-6004: Vault Userpass and LDAP User Lockout Bypass

> CVE-2025-6004: Vault Userpass and LDAP User Lockout Bypass. CVSS 5.3 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-6004
Last updated: 2026-06-17T10:00:58Z

- Published: 2025-08-01 17:56 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 10:00 UTC · Assigner: HashiCorp
- CVSS: 5.3 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- EPSS: 0.45%, 39th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-307

## Description

Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) user lockout feature could be bypassed for Userpass and LDAP authentication methods. 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 vendors and products

- HashiCorp: Vault
- HashiCorp: Vault Enterprise

## Tracked companies

- [HashiCorp](https://rewindex.com/company/hashicorp.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-6004)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6004)
- [https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-16-vault-userpass-and-ldap-user-lockout-bypass/76035](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-16-vault-userpass-and-ldap-user-lockout-bypass/76035)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-6004 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-6004.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-6004 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:13:10.807Z