Vulnerabilities
Projects
Vulnerability Disclosure
About Us
Contact Us
Mend.io Vulnerability Database
What is a CVE vulnerability ID? 
What is a WS vulnerability ID?
What is an MSC vulnerability ID?
New vulnerability? Tell us about it!
What is a WS vulnerability ID?
What is an MSC vulnerability ID?
We found results for “”
CVE-2025-12044
Good to know:
Date: October 23, 2025
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.
Severity Score
Related Resources (7)
Severity Score
Weakness Type (CWE)
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CWE-770Top Fix
CVSS v3.1
| Base Score: |
|
|---|---|
| Attack Vector (AV): | NETWORK |
| Attack Complexity (AC): | LOW |
| Privileges Required (PR): | NONE |
| User Interaction (UI): | NONE |
| Scope (S): | UNCHANGED |
| Confidentiality (C): | NONE |
| Integrity (I): | NONE |
| Availability (A): | HIGH |