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CVE-2025-11621

Vault AWS auth method bypass due to AWS client cache

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
HashiCorp

Description

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

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

HashiCorp Vault

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0.6.0 to < 1.21.0affected

HashiCorp Vault Enterprise

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0.6.0 to < 1.21.0affected

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