hashicorp/vault · Security
Hashicorp Vault and Vault Enterprise vulnerable to a denial of service when processing JSON
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-vp5w-xcfc-73wf
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-12044
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
CWEs
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12044 ↗
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-31-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-due-to-rate-limit-regression/76710 ↗
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/commit/b19e74c29a33ed2a99fc01626104db1a49345df3 ↗
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/commit/eedc2b7426f30e57e306229ce697ce81e203ab89 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vp5w-xcfc-73wf ↗