{"id":"CVE-2025-12044","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.","aliases":["BIT-vault-2025-12044","GHSA-vp5w-xcfc-73wf","GO-2025-4071"],"modified":"2026-04-10T05:20:49.541501Z","published":"2025-10-23T20:15:37.607Z","related":["CGA-wxj8-62j7-p5vh","openSUSE-SU-2025:15710-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-31-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-due-to-rate-limit-regression/76710"}],"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":{"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"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-12044.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}