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CVE-2025-12044

High · 7.5

Hashicorp Vault and Vault Enterprise vulnerable to a denial of service when processing JSON

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

0.5%

Published

Oct 23, 2025

CISA due date

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The record

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 packages

Ecosystem Package Introduced Fixed
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.20.3 1.21.0
Bitnami vault 0.6.0 1.16.27
Chainguard splunk-otel-collector 0 0.139.2-r0
Chainguard splunk-otel-collector-compat 0 0.138.0-r0
Chainguard splunk-otel-collector-doc 0 0.138.0-r0
Chainguard splunk-otel-collector-fips 0 0.139.2-r0
Chainguard splunk-otel-collector-migratecheckpoint 0 0.138.0-r0
Chainguard splunk-otel-collector-migratecheckpoint-compat 0 0.138.0-r0
Chainguard vault-1.16 0 1.16.3-r29
Chainguard vault-1.16-compat 0 1.16.3-r26
Chainguard vault-1.17 0 1.17.6-r21
Chainguard vault-1.17-compat 0 1.17.6-r18
Chainguard vault-1.18-compat 0 1.18.5-r15
Chainguard vault-1.19-compat 0 1.19.5-r5
Chainguard vault-1.20-compat 0 1.20.4-r1
Chainguard vault-fips-1.19-compat 0 1.19.5-r8
Chainguard vault-fips-1.20-compat 0 1.20.4-r1
Wolfi splunk-otel-collector 0 0.139.2-r0
Wolfi splunk-otel-collector-compat 0 0.138.0-r0
Wolfi splunk-otel-collector-doc 0 0.138.0-r0
Wolfi splunk-otel-collector-migratecheckpoint 0 0.138.0-r0
Wolfi splunk-otel-collector-migratecheckpoint-compat 0 0.138.0-r0
go github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.20.3 1.21.0
openSUSE:Tumbleweed govulncheck-vulndb 0 0.0.20251105T184115-1.1

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