{"schema_version":"1.7.3","id":"GHSA-vp5w-xcfc-73wf","published":"2025-10-23T21:31:44Z","modified":"2026-02-04T02:38:46.805548Z","aliases":["BIT-vault-2025-12044","CVE-2025-12044","GO-2025-4071"],"related":["CGA-wxj8-62j7-p5vh"],"summary":"Hashicorp Vault and Vault Enterprise vulnerable to a denial of service when processing JSON","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":"github.com/hashicorp/vault","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"1.20.3"},{"fixed":"1.21.0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/10/GHSA-vp5w-xcfc-73wf/GHSA-vp5w-xcfc-73wf.json"}}],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12044"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/commit/b19e74c29a33ed2a99fc01626104db1a49345df3"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/commit/eedc2b7426f30e57e306229ce697ce81e203ab89"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-31-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-due-to-rate-limit-regression/76710"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/hashicorp/vault"}],"database_specific":{"cwe_ids":["CWE-770"],"github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2025-10-23T22:21:45Z","nvd_published_at":"2025-10-23T20:15:37Z","severity":"HIGH"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}