hashicorp/vault · Security
HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise's AWS Auth method may be susceptible to authentication bypass
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-9g4h-h484-3578
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-11621
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 8.1 · 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 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.
CWEs
- CWE-288 · Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11621 ↗
- 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/commit/8d07273d14ae7f5a48cc96f66cc86615dea83390 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9g4h-h484-3578 ↗