CVE-2025-12044

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12044
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-12044.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-12044
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-10-23T20:15:37.607Z
Modified
2026-03-23T05:09:39.457125306Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/hashicorp/vault

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault
Events
Introduced
7665ff29d77e5cb3ea9ddbeaed49ee312e53c6b8
Fixed
818ca8b3575ea937ca48b640baf35e1b2ede1833
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.20.3"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.21.0"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-12044.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "1.16.25"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "1.16.27"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "1.18.14"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "1.18.15"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "1.19.9"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "1.19.11"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "1.20.3"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "1.20.5"
            }
        ]
    }
]