CVE 8.1 HIGH

Vault AWS auth method bypass due to AWS client cache_CVE-2025-11621

8.1 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-11621
Source HashiCorp
Published Oct 23, 2025 at 19:08
Modified Oct 23, 2025 at 20:31

Affected Product

Vendor HashiCorp
Product Vault
Version 0.6.0
Affected Versions HashiCorp Vault 0.6.0
HashiCorp Vault Enterprise 0.6.0

CWE Classification

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