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CVE

CVE-2025-11621

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise's AWS Auth method may be susceptible to authentication bypass
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CVE

CVE-2025-11621

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise's AWS Auth method may be susceptible to authentication bypass

Vault and Vault Enterprise's ("Vault") AWS Auth method may be susceptible to authentication bypass if the role of the configured boundprincipaliam is the same across AWS accounts, or uses a wildcard. This vulnerability 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.

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
8.1
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
C
H
U
0
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
C
H
U
8.1
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Related Resources

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11621, https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/commit/8d07273d14ae7f5a48cc96f66cc86615dea83390, https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-30-vault-aws-auth-method-authentication-bypass-through-mishandling-of-cache-entries/76709, https://github.com/hashicorp/vault

Severity

8.1

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
8.1
EPSS Probability
0.00146%
EPSS Percentile
0.35482%
Introduced Version
0.6.0,v1.19.0-rc1,v0.0.0-20250210233644-9b70487623a5,v1.6.0-rc,v0.0.0-20200915222656-4ff444fc5f79,v0.7.1,v0.0.0-20170424191550-5a934e6b2fe0,v0.6.2,v0.0.0-20160924013536-2bd8903cf48b,v0.6.0-rc1,v0.0.0-20160530181115-e4d98dfc9b9a,v0.6.0-beta1,v0.0.0-20160426142229-22c0ad94ba7c,v0.0.0-20160426142228-7efc5eceb95f,v0.0.0-20160426142228-e886d5aab976
Fix Available
1.21.0,v1.21.0,v0.0.0-20251021192444-054c35de0c83

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