What is GHSA-gcqf-f89c-68hv?

GHSA-gcqf-f89c-68hv is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Hashicorp Vault Community vulnerable to Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-gcqf-f89c-68hv cover?

GHSA-gcqf-f89c-68hv covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2025-4166. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-gcqf-f89c-68hv?

GHSA-gcqf-f89c-68hv has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-gcqf-f89c-68hv?

GHSA-gcqf-f89c-68hv affects 1 product, including: go/github.com/hashicorp/vault:\u003e= 0.3.0, \u003c 1.19.3.

GHSA-gcqf-f89c-68hvMediumCVSS 4.5

Hashicorp Vault Community vulnerable to Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 2, 2025

Last Modified

May 6, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-4166 →

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products1

go/github.com/hashicorp/vault:>= 0.3.0, < 1.19.3

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4166
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-09-vault-may-expose-sensitive-information-in-error-logs-when-processing-malformed-data-with-the-kv-v2-plugin
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-3663
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gcqf-f89c-68hv