CVE-2025-12044 Affecting vault package, versions <1.21.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-VAULT-13713403
  • published25 Oct 2025
  • disclosed23 Oct 2025

Introduced: 23 Oct 2025

CVE-2025-12044  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest vault to version 1.21.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vault package and not the vault package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1