7.5
High
CVE-2025-12044 Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) are vulnerable to an unauthenticated denial of service when processing JSON…
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 products and versions
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Vault 1.20 | 1.20.3 → < 1.21.0 | 1.21.0 |
| Vault Enterprise 1.20 | 1.20.3 → < 1.21.0 | 1.21.0 |
| Vault Enterprise 1.19 | 1.19.9 → < 1.19.11 | 1.19.11 |
| Vault Enterprise 1.18 | 1.18.14 → < 1.18.15 | 1.18.15 |
| Vault Enterprise 1.16 | 1.16.25 → < 1.16.27 | 1.16.27 |
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