{"id":69019,"date":"2025-08-29T00:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-6203-hashicorp-vault-cpu-and-memory-exhaustion-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:02:17","slug":"cve-2025-6203-hashicorp-vault-cpu-and-memory-exhaustion-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-6203-hashicorp-vault-cpu-and-memory-exhaustion-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-6203 &#8211; HashiCorp Vault CPU and Memory Exhaustion Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-6203<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> Aug. 28, 2025, 8:15 p.m. | 29\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>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\u2019s 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 7.5 | HIGH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-6203 Published : Aug. 28, 2025, 8:15 p.m. | 29\u00a0minutes ago Description : 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\u2019s auditing subroutine, potentially resulting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}