GHSA-8f82-53h8-2p34

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8f82-53h8-2p34

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/08/GHSA-8f82-53h8-2p34/GHSA-8f82-53h8-2p34.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-8f82-53h8-2p34

Aliases

BIT-vault-2025-6203
CVE-2025-6203

Downstream

MINI-6j2q-v8gv-c9j2

Related

Published

2025-08-28T21:31:26Z

Modified

2025-08-30T09:56:57.768354Z

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

HashiCorp Vault Community Edition Denial of Service Though Complex JSON Payloads

Details

A malicious user may submit a specially-crafted complex payload that otherwise meets the default request size limit which results in excessive memory and CPU consumption of Vault. This may lead to a timeout in Vault’s auditing subroutine, potentially resulting in the Vault server to become unresponsive. This vulnerability, CVE-2025-6203, is fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.3 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.3, 1.19.9, 1.18.14, and 1.16.25.

Database specific

{
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-770"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-08-28T20:15:43Z",
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-08-29T16:22:47Z"
}

References

Affected packages

Go / github.com/hashicorp/vault

Package

Name: github.com/hashicorp/vault; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.20.3