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

INFO

Published Date :

2025-10-23T19:08:54.989Z

Last Modified :

2026-02-26T16:57:11.235Z

Source :

HashiCorp
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-11621 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Hashicorp
  • Vault
  • Vault Enterprise
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-11621.

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https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-30-vault-aws-auth-method-authentication-bypass-through-mishandling-of-cache-entries/76709 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/commit/054c35de0c830fd7cb9991bec8b0e6a0c793e98d cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11621 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11621 cve-icon
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