{"cve":"CVE-2025-11621","nvd":{"published":"2025-10-23T19:15:48.893","modified":"2026-10-18T21:10:00.120","status":"Analyzed","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","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","score":8.1},"cwes":["CWE-288"],"references":["https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-30-vault-aws-auth-method-authentication-bypass-through-mishandling-of-cache-entries/76709"],"products":["hashicorp:vault"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:12:35.277909958+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-11621","score":0.00489,"percentile":0.41803,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-9g4h-h484-3578","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-9g4h-h484-3578","summary":"HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise's AWS Auth method may be susceptible to authentication bypass","modified":"2026-09-10T03:50:29.657386626Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/hashicorp/vault","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault","ranges":[">=0.6.0 <1.21.0"],"fixed":["1.21.0"]}]},{"id":"GO-2025-4070","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GO-2025-4070","summary":"HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise's AWS Auth method may be susceptible to authentication bypass in github.com/hashicorp/vault","modified":"2026-02-04T04:38:02.358111Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/hashicorp/vault","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault","ranges":[">=0.6.0 <1.21.0"],"fixed":["1.21.0"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}