CVE-2025-12044
Fixed in a distro release EPSS <1%CVSS 7.5
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.
Products: HashiCorp Vault, HashiCorp Vault Enterprise
Fixed upstream
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | 1.21.0 |
Distro releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Chainguard | splunk-otel-collector | 0.139.2-r0 |
| Chainguard | splunk-otel-collector-fips | 0.139.2-r0 |
| Chainguard | vault-1.16 | no fix |
| Chainguard | vault-1.17 | no fix |
| Chainguard | vault-1.18 | no fix |
| Chainguard | vault-1.19 | no fix |
| Chainguard | vault-1.20 | no fix |
| Wolfi | splunk-otel-collector | 0.139.2-r0 |
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | govulncheck-vulndb | 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | govulncheck-vulndb | 0.0.20251105T184115-1.1 |