SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/vault (GHSA-f9ch-h8j7-8jwg)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434695

Description

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

- Vault Community, Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) Azure Auth method did not correctly validate the claims in the
Azure-issued token, resulting in the potential bypass of the bound_locations parameter on login. Fixed in
Vault Community Edition 1.19.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.19.1, 1.18.7, 1.17.14, 1.16.18. (CVE-2025-3879)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f9ch-h8j7-8jwg

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434695

Version: Revision 1.6

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.75

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-3879

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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-2025-3879

cwe: CWE-863