CVE-2025-11621

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

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
HashiCorpVault0.6.0 < 1.21.0affected
HashiCorpVault Enterprise0.6.0 < 1.21.0affected

Weaknesses

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

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References