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.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-10-23T19:15:16.567Z

Last Modified :

2025-10-23T20:00:16.601Z

Source :

HashiCorp
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-12044 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Hashicorp
  • Vault
  • Vault Enterprise
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-12044.

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https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-31-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-due-to-rate-limit-regression/76710 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/commit/0adb749a82071ac312d05aef8bc0fe79b6ad49a6 cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12044 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12044 cve-icon
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