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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-10-28 11:51

Modified

2025-10-28 12:07

Summary

Vault AWS auth method bypass due to AWS client cache

Details

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

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  "published": "2025-10-28T11:51:04.350Z",
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  "summary": "Vault AWS auth method bypass due to AWS client cache"
}

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-23 19:08 – Updated: 2025-10-24 03:55

Title

Vault AWS auth method bypass due to AWS client cache

Summary

Severity ?

8.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CWE

CWE-288 - Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

Assigner

HashiCorp

References

URL

Tags

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-30-vau…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

HashiCorp

Vault

Affected: 0.6.0 , < 1.21.0 (semver)

HashiCorp

Vault Enterprise

Affected: 0.6.0 , < 1.21.0 (semver)

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

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