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SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/vault (GHSA-gcqf-f89c-68hv)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434713

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Vault Community and Vault Enterprise Key/Value (kv) Version 2 plugin may unintentionally expose sensitive
 information in server and audit logs when users submit malformed payloads during secret creation or update
 operations via the Vault REST API. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-4166, is fixed in Vault
 Community 1.19.3 and Vault Enterprise 1.19.3, 1.18.9, 1.17.16, 1.16.20. (CVE-2025-4166)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gcqf-f89c-68hv

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434713

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4166

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/2/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-4166

cwe: CWE-209