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    CVE-2025-12044

    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.

    Published:Oct 23, 2025
    Last Modified:Dec 23, 2025
    EPS:Oct 23, 2025
    EPSS Score:0.0011
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Hashicorp
    Product
    Vault
    Vendor
    Hashicorp
    Product
    Vault Enterprise

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

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