Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service Due to Rate Limit Regr… (CVE-2025-12044)

Summary

Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service Due to Rate Limit Regression

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV

Affected packages

Bitnami vault

[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0.6.0"},{"fixed":"1.16.27"},{"introduced":"1.17.0"},{"fixed":"1.19.11"},{"introduced":"1.20.0"},{"fixed":"1.21.0"}]}]

References

advisory discuss.hashicorp.com
web nvd.nist.gov