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CVE-2025-11621 (GCVE-0-2025-11621)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-23 19:08 – Updated: 2026-02-26 16:57
VLAI
Title
Vault AWS auth method bypass due to AWS client cache
Summary
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
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-24 03:55 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-288 - Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
HashiCorp Vault Affected: 0.6.0 , < 1.21.0 (semver)
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