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CVE-2025-4166 (GCVE-0-2025-4166)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-02 14:57 – Updated: 2025-05-08 13:01
VLAI
Title
Vault May Include Sensitive Data in Error Logs When Using the KV v2 Plugin
Summary
Vault Community and Vault Enterprise Key/Value (kv) Version 2 plugin may unintentionally expose sensitive information in server and audit logs when users submit malformed payloads during secret creation or update operations via the Vault REST API. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-4166, is fixed in Vault Community 1.19.3 and Vault Enterprise 1.19.3, 1.18.9, 1.17.16, 1.16.20.
Severity
4.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-02 15:39 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-209 - Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
HashiCorp Vault Affected: 0.3.0 , < 1.19.2 (semver)
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HashiCorp Vault Enterprise Affected: 0.10.0 , < 1.19.2 (semver)
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