CVE-2025-6203
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.
Published:Aug 28, 2025
Last Modified:Dec 18, 2025
EPS:Aug 28, 2025
EPSS Score:0.00025
CVSS Score:7.5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Hashicorp
Product
Vault
Hashicorp
Vault
Vendor
Hashicorp
Product
Vault Enterprise
Hashicorp
Vault Enterprise
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
