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
CVE-2025-11621
This high-severity CVE scores 8.1 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.1%, top 77% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 8.1
- EG Score
- 8.1(medium)
- EPSS
- 39.1%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
October 23, 2025
Last Modified
December 29, 2025
References (1)
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-11621(7)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:3827Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Release 1.20.3
- RHSA-2025:22058Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHTAS 1.3.1 - Tech Preview Release Of the Policy Controller Operator
- RHSA-2025:21988Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHTAS 1.3.1 - Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer Release
- RHSA-2025:21984Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHTAS 1.3.1 - Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer Release
- RHSA-2025:21981Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHTAS 1.3.1 - Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer Release
- RHSA-2025:21976Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHTAS 1.3.1 - Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer Release
- HCSEC-2025-30HashiCorp Security
HCSEC-2025-30 - Vault AWS Auth Method Authentication Bypass Through Mishandling of Cache Entries
Patch Availability(6)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | openshift-pipelines/pipelines-cli-tkn-rhel9:1772694865 | 2026-03-05 | redhat |
| redhat | rhtas/policy-controller-rhel9:0.0.2-1763550444 | 2025-11-25 | redhat |
| redhat | rhtas/timestamp-authority-rhel9:1.3.1-1763543194 | 2025-11-24 | redhat |
| redhat | rhtas/gitsign-rhel9:1.3.1-1763545956 | 2025-11-24 | redhat |
| redhat | rhtas/fulcio-rhel9:1.3.1-1763543131 | 2025-11-24 | redhat |
| redhat | rhtas/rekor-server-rhel9:1.3.1-1763545685 | 2025-11-24 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Go(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| github.com/hashicorp/vault | — | 1.21.0 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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