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SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/vault (GHSA-9g4h-h484-3578)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 435767

Description

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

 - 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)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9g4h-h484-3578

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 435767

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/24/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-11621

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 10/23/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-11621

cwe: CWE-288