CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-12044
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-10-23
- Last modified
- 2026-10-18
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Description
Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) are vulnerable to an unauthenticated denial of service when processing JSON payloads. This occurs due to a regression from a previous fix for [+HCSEC-2025-24+|https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-24-vault-denial-of-service-though-complex-json-payloads/76393] which allowed for processing JSON payloads before applying rate limits. This vulnerability, CVE-2025-12044, is fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.21.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.16.27, 1.19.11, 1.20.5, and 1.21.0.
Affected configurations
• hashicorp vault (>= 1.16.25 < 1.16.27)
• hashicorp vault (>= 1.18.14 <= 1.18.15)
• hashicorp vault (>= 1.19.9 <= 1.19.11)
• hashicorp vault (>= 1.20.3 < 1.20.5)
• hashicorp vault (>= 1.20.3 < 1.21.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness