Vault Terraform Provider Applied Incorrect Defaults for LDAP Auth Method

Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2025-13357

Vault’s Terraform Provider incorrectly set the default deny_null_bind parameter for the LDAP auth method to false by default, potentially resulting in an insecure configuration. If the underlying LDAP server allowed anonymous or unauthenticated binds, this could result in authentication bypass. This vulnerability, CVE-2025-13357, is fixed in Vault Terraform Provider v5.5.0.

Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-gmm6-j2g5-r52m

Vault’s Terraform Provider incorrectly set the default deny_null_bind parameter for the LDAP auth method to false by default, potentially resulting in an insecure configuration. If the underlying LDAP server allowed anonymous or unauthenticated binds, this could result in authentication bypass. This vulnerability, CVE-2025-13357, is fixed in Vault Terraform Provider v5.5.0.

Open Source Vulnerabilities GO-2025-4152

Vault’s Terraform Provider incorrectly set default deny_null_bind parameter for LDAP auth method to false by default in github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vault. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. (If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.) The additional affected modules and versions are: github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vault before v5.5.0.