CVE-2026-4525 (GCVE-0-2026-4525)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-17 03:00
Modified
2026-04-17 17:22
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-201 - Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data
Summary
If a Vault auth mount is configured to pass through the "Authorization" header, and the "Authorization" header is used to authenticate to Vault, Vault forwarded the Vault token to the auth plugin backend. Fixed in 2.0.0, 1.21.5, 1.20.10, and 1.19.16.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
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| HashiCorp | Vault |
Version: 0.11.2 ≤ |
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