CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-6203

7.5 HIGH Published 2025-08-28 Modified 2026-09-26 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-08-28
Last modified
2026-09-26
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

A malicious user may submit a specially-crafted complex payload that otherwise meets the default request size limit which results in excessive memory and CPU consumption of Vault. This may lead to a timeout in Vault’s auditing subroutine, potentially resulting in the Vault server to become unresponsive. This vulnerability, CVE-2025-6203, is fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.3 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.3, 1.19.9, 1.18.14, and 1.16.25.

Affected configurations

• hashicorp vault (>= 1.15.0 < 1.16.27) • hashicorp vault (>= 1.15.0 < 1.21.0) • hashicorp vault (>= 1.18.0 < 1.18.15) • hashicorp vault (>= 1.19.0 < 1.19.11) • hashicorp vault (>= 1.20.0 < 1.20.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References