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Medium· 6.6GHSA-f9ch-h8j7-8jwg CVE-2025-3879CWE-863Published May 2, 2025

Hashicorp Vault Community vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization

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Affected versions

1.10.0 → fixed in 1.19.1

Details

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.

The fix

No fix commit could be resolved for this advisory (it may reference an issue tracker or a non-GitHub patch). See the references below.

References