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CVE-2025-11621

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
23/10/2025
Last modified:
29/12/2025

Description

Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) AWS Auth method may be susceptible to authentication bypass if the role of the configured bound_principal_iam is the same across AWS accounts, or uses a wildcard. This vulnerability, CVE-2025-11621, is fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.21.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.21.0, 1.20.5, 1.19.11, and 1.16.27

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.10 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x
8.10
Severity 3.x
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* 0.6.0 (including) 1.16.27 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* 0.6.0 (including) 1.21.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* 1.18.0 (including) 1.18.15 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* 1.19.0 (including) 1.19.11 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* 1.20.0 (including) 1.20.5 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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