Name: CVE-2025-4166: Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2025-05-02T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2025-4166, CVSS 4.5, EPSS 0.00037

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 4.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Alpine Linux	—	Upgrade openbao	Aug 8, 2025	May 2, 2025
Suse	—	Upgrade govulncheck-vulndb	Nov 5, 2025	May 8, 2025

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CVSS Details

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