CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2025-12044
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.53%
Original NVD Description
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.
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