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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

Severity
High 8.1
Published
23 Oct 2025
Last changed
18 Oct 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Fixed in
1.16.27, 1.19.11, 1.20.5, 1.21.0
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
HashiCorp VaultServers and applications · cpe:a:hashicorp:vault
  • From 0.6.0 before 1.16.27
  • From 0.6.0 before 1.21.0
  • From 1.18.0 up to 1.18.15
  • From 1.19.0 before 1.19.11
  • From 1.20.0 before 1.20.5

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11621
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11621