A malicious user may submit a specially-crafted complex payload that otherwise meets the default request size limit which results in excessive memory and CPU consumption of Vault. This may lead to a timeout in Vault’s auditing subroutine, potentially resulting in the Vault server to become unresponsive. This vulnerability, CVE-2025-6203, is fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.3 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.3, 1.19.9, 1.18.14, and 1.16.25.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
github.com/hashicorp/vault
|
- | 1.20.3 |
| hashicorp / vault | 1.15.0 | 1.16.27 |
| hashicorp / vault | 1.15.0 | 1.21.0 |
| hashicorp / vault | 1.18.0 | 1.18.15 |
| hashicorp / vault | 1.19.0 | 1.19.11 |
| hashicorp / vault | 1.20.0 | 1.20.5 |