{"schema_version":"1.9.0","id":"BIT-vault-2025-11621","published":"2025-10-28T11:51:04.350Z","modified":"2026-09-08T08:48:21.471179597Z","aliases":["CVE-2025-11621","GHSA-9g4h-h484-3578","GO-2025-4070"],"summary":"Vault AWS auth method bypass due to AWS client cache","details":"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":[{"package":{"name":"vault","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/vault"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0.6.0"},{"fixed":"1.21.0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/vault/BIT-vault-2025-11621.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"}]}],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-30-vault-aws-auth-method-authentication-bypass-through-mishandling-of-cache-entries/76709"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11621"}],"database_specific":{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:go:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:community:go:*:*"],"severity":"High"}}