CVE-2025-6203
Fixed in a distro release EPSS <1%CVSS 7.5
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.
Products: HashiCorp Vault, HashiCorp Vault Enterprise
Fixed upstream
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | 1.20.3 |
Distro releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Chainguard | splunk-otel-collector | 0.132.0-r2 |
| Chainguard | splunk-otel-collector-compat | 0.132.0-r2 |
| Chainguard | splunk-otel-collector-doc | 0.132.0-r2 |
| Chainguard | splunk-otel-collector-fips | 0.132.0-r1 |
| Chainguard | splunk-otel-collector-migratecheckpoint | 0.132.0-r2 |
| Chainguard | splunk-otel-collector-migratecheckpoint-compat | 0.132.0-r2 |
| Chainguard | vault-1.16 | no fix |
| Chainguard | vault-1.16-compat | 1.16.3-r26 |
| Chainguard | vault-1.17 | no fix |
| Chainguard | vault-1.17-compat | 1.17.6-r18 |
| Chainguard | vault-1.18 | no fix |
| Chainguard | vault-1.18-compat | 1.18.5-r15 |
| Chainguard | vault-1.19 | no fix |
| Chainguard | vault-1.19-compat | 1.19.5-r5 |
| Chainguard | vault-1.20 | 1.20.4-r2 |
| Chainguard | vault-fips-1.19-compat | 1.19.5-r8 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6 | govulncheck-vulndb | 0.0.20250918T182144-150000.1.107.1 |
| Wolfi | splunk-otel-collector | 0.132.0-r2 |
| Wolfi | splunk-otel-collector-compat | 0.132.0-r2 |
| Wolfi | splunk-otel-collector-doc | 0.132.0-r2 |
| Wolfi | splunk-otel-collector-migratecheckpoint | 0.132.0-r2 |
| Wolfi | splunk-otel-collector-migratecheckpoint-compat | 0.132.0-r2 |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 | govulncheck-vulndb | 0.0.20250918T182144-150000.1.107.1 |
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | govulncheck-vulndb | 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | govulncheck-vulndb | 0.0.20250908T141310-1.1 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | openbao | 2.4.1-1.1 |