> CVE-2025-11621 [HIGH]

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PUBLISHED
2025-10-23 19:15
MODIFIED
2025-10-23 19:15
CVSS_SCORE V3
8.1
EPSS (Prob. Exploit)
0.49%
Top 58.8%
DATA SOURCES:
NVD đź”— 2025-10-23 CVE PROJECT đź”— 2026-01-19 CWE MITRE đź”— 2026-11-01 FIRST EPSS đź”— 2026-10-25 GITHUB đź”— 2026-11-04 OSV đź”— 2026-09-13

> 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

ℹ️ Aucun produit affecté n'a encore été publié par NVD pour cette CVE.

> CVSS V3 METRICS

CVSS_VECTOR
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EXPLOITABILITY
2.8
IMPACT
5.2

> MÉTRIQUES CVSS DÉTAILLÉES

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Métrique Valeur Interprétation
AV (Vecteur d'Attaque)
Attack Vector
Network (N)
Exploit possible à distance via réseau (HTTP, API, etc.)
AC (Complexité d'Attaque)
Attack Complexity
Low (L)
Peu de conditions requises pour exploiter
PR (Privilèges Requis)
Privileges Required
Low (L)
Authentifié avec compte utilisateur basique
UI (Interaction Utilisateur)
User Interaction
None (N)
Aucune interaction utilisateur nécessaire
S (Périmètre)
Scope
Unchanged (U)
Impact reste dans le périmètre du composant compromis
C (Impact Confidentialité)
Confidentiality Impact
High (H)
Divulgation totale d'informations
I (Impact Intégrité)
Integrity Impact
High (H)
Modification totale des données possible
A (Impact Disponibilité)
Availability Impact
None (N)
Aucune interruption de service

> RÉSUMÉ DES IMPACTS

Confidentialité
High
Divulgation totale d'informations
Intégrité
High
Modification totale des données possible
Disponibilité
None
Aucune interruption de service

> WEAKNESSES

CWE-288

> CWE DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS

CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel - The product requires authentication, but the product has an alternate path or channel that does not require authentication.

> RED HAT SECURITY ADVISORIES

Red Hat Security Advisory: RHTAS 1.3.1 - Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer Release
The 1.3.1 release of Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer OpenShift Operator. For more details see [product documentation](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_trusted_artifact_signer/1).
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHTAS 1.3.1 - Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer Release
The 1.3.1 release of Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer OpenShift Operator. For more details see [product documentation](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_trusted_artifact_signer/1).
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHTAS 1.3.1 - Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer Release
The 1.3.1 release of Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer OpenShift Operator. For more details see [product documentation](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_trusted_artifact_signer/1).
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHTAS 1.3.1 - Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer Release
The 1.3.1 release of Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer OpenShift Operator. For more details see [product documentation](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_trusted_artifact_signer/1).
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHTAS 1.3.1 - Tech Preview Release Of the Policy Controller Operator
The Tech Preview release of the RHTAS Policy Controller Operator. For more details see [product documentation](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_trusted_artifact_signer/1).
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Release 1.20.3
The 1.20.3 GA release of Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator.. For more details see [product documentation](https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_openshift_pipelines).

> GITHUB SECURITY ADVISORY

GHSA-9g4h-h484-3578 HIGH

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise's AWS Auth method may be susceptible to authentication bypass

AFFECTED PACKAGES:
GO / github.com/hashicorp/vault
>= 0.6.0, < 1.21.0
Fixed in: 1.21.0

> OSV (GOOGLE OPEN SOURCE VULNERABILITIES)

Vault AWS auth method bypass due to AWS client cache

AFFECTED PACKAGES:
Unknown / Unknown
194 versions affected
ALIASES:
BIT-vault-2025-11621, GHSA-9g4h-h484-3578, GO-2025-4070

> HISTORIQUE DES MODIFICATIONS

Première apparition
23/10/2025 19:15
Source: NVD
đź“Š ENRICHISSEMENT 01/11/2025 06:01
CWE
Champ modifié: Description CWE
Ancienne valeur:
N/A
Nouvelle valeur:
CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel - The product requires authentication, but the product has an alternate path or channel that does not require authentication.
đź“Š ENRICHISSEMENT 23/10/2025 20:45
CVEPROJECT
Champ modifié: CVE Project
Ancienne valeur:
Non
Nouvelle valeur:
Oui
Total des modifications: 2 Dernière mise à jour: 1 year ago

> REFERENCES

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-30-vault-aws-auth-method-authenticati...
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