CVE-2025-11621
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 3.1
- 8.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N - EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-288
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- hashicorp:vault
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-9g4h-h484-3578 | Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=0.6.0 <1.21.0 | 1.21.0 |
| GO-2025-4070 | Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=0.6.0 <1.21.0 | 1.21.0 |