CVE 9.1 CRITICAL

Arbitrary Remote Code Execution via Plugin Catalog Abuse_CVE-2025-6000

9.1 / 10
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-6000
Source HashiCorp
Published Aug 1, 2025 at 17:40
Modified Aug 1, 2025 at 18:12

Affected Product

Vendor HashiCorp
Product Vault
Version 0.8.0
Affected Versions HashiCorp Vault 0.8.0
HashiCorp Vault Enterprise 0.8.0

CWE Classification

References

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