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-2025-2…
Exact source revision recorded 25 Oct 2026 01:17:23 UTC. It does not establish the source's current position. Latest evidence.
nvd · CVE-2025-12044
PublishedVault 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.
NVD analysis and CPE criteria are source context, not proof that a package or your environment is affected. Complete affected data, logical configurations and SSVC are retained in the original JSON.
Source analysis status: Analyzed
Weakness classifications: CWE-770
Original publisher date fields
published: 2025-10-23T20:15:37.607
lastModified: 2026-10-18T21:10:00.120
2 source CPE criteria · context only
- cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
The original JSON retains the logical configuration operators, exclusions and version bounds.
- Source published
- 23 Oct 2025 20:15:37 UTC
- Source modified
- 18 Oct 2026 21:10:00 UTC
- Observed here
- 25 Oct 2026 01:17:23 UTC
- Source terms
- NIST NVD usage terms; underlying source attribution retained
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This view projects the publisher's source fields for reading; the original JSON retains additional fields and CVE enrichment containers. Attribution: nvd · NIST NVD usage terms; underlying source attribution retained. Source text is retained; field grouping and change labels are provided by ChangeIntel.
CVSS 3.1 · [email protected] · Secondary · 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H