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
- Affected products
- Red Os, Vault, Vault Enterprise
- Hashicorp Vault
- < 1.16.27, 1.21.0, 1.18.15, 1.19.11, 1.20.5
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.1 HIGH
- EPSS
- 0.5% (39th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-288
- NVD status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-10-23
- Attack patterns
- CAPEC-115
CVE-2025-11621 at NVD
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