CVE-2025-11621

Published Oct 23, 2025

Last updated 2 months ago

Overview

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
Source
security@hashicorp.com
NVD status
Analyzed
Products
vault

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
8.1
Impact score
5.2
Exploitability score
2.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Severity
HIGH

Weaknesses

security@hashicorp.com
CWE-288

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations