{"schema_version":"1.9.0","id":"BIT-vault-2025-12044","published":"2025-10-28T11:51:06.109Z","modified":"2026-09-08T08:48:21.202911181Z","aliases":["CVE-2025-12044","GHSA-vp5w-xcfc-73wf","GO-2025-4071"],"summary":"Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service Due to Rate Limit Regression","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.","affected":[{"package":{"name":"vault","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/vault"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0.6.0"},{"fixed":"1.16.27"},{"introduced":"1.17.0"},{"fixed":"1.19.11"},{"introduced":"1.20.0"},{"fixed":"1.21.0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/vault/BIT-vault-2025-12044.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-31-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-due-to-rate-limit-regression/76710"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12044"}],"database_specific":{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:go:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:community:go:*:*"],"severity":"High"}}