MEDIUM5.3

GHSA-qgj7-fmq2-6cc4

Hashicorp Vault has Lockout Feature Authentication Bypass

Quick fix

GHSA-qgj7-fmq2-6cc4 — github.com/hashicorp/vault: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

go get github.com/hashicorp/vault@v1.20.1

Details

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.

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Affected packages

Go/github.com/hashicorp/vault

Introduced in: 1.13.0Fixed in: 1.20.1

Fixgo get github.com/hashicorp/vault@v1.20.1

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6004[ADVISORY]
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-16-vault-userpass-and-ldap-user-lockout-bypass/76035[WEB]
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault[PACKAGE]