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.
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GHSA-vp5w-xcfc-73wf | Hashicorp Vault and Vault Enterprise vulnerable to a denial of service when processing JSON |
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| 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. | |
| Title | Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service Due to Rate Limit Regression | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: HashiCorp
Published:
Updated: 2025-10-23T20:00:16.601Z
Reserved: 2025-10-21T19:12:21.827Z
Link: CVE-2025-12044
Updated: 2025-10-23T20:00:13.049Z
Status : Received
Published: 2025-10-23T20:15:37.607
Modified: 2025-10-23T20:15:37.607
Link: CVE-2025-12044
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