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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-05-07 05:56

Modified

2025-08-13 06:08

Summary

Vault May Include Sensitive Data in Error Logs When Using the KV v2 Plugin

Details

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.

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  "id": "BIT-vault-2025-4166",
  "modified": "2025-08-13T06:08:53.695Z",
  "published": "2025-05-07T05:56:55.608Z",
  "references": [
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    }
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  "summary": "Vault May Include Sensitive Data in Error Logs When Using the KV v2 Plugin"
}

CVE-2025-4166 (GCVE-0-2025-4166)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-02 14:57 – Updated: 2025-05-08 13:01

Title

Vault May Include Sensitive Data in Error Logs When Using the KV v2 Plugin

Summary

Severity ?

4.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-209 - Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

Assigner

HashiCorp

References

URL

Tags

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-09-vau…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

HashiCorp

Vault

Affected: 0.3.0 , < 1.19.2 (semver)

HashiCorp

Vault Enterprise

Affected: 0.10.0 , < 1.19.2 (semver)

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2025-4166 (GCVE-0-2025-4166)

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