CVE-2025-12044
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Hashicorp Vault and Vault Enterprise vulnerable to a denial of service when processing JSON in github.com/hashicorp/vault
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=1.20.3,<1.21.0 | 1.21.0 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12044
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/commit/b19e74c29a33ed2a99fc01626104db1a49345df3
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/commit/eedc2b7426f30e57e306229ce697ce81e203ab89
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-31-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-due-to-rate-limit-regression/76710
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vp5w-xcfc-73wf
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.