Upstream information

CVE-2025-6203 at MITRE

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'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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (HashiCorp)
Base Score 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
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No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20250908T141310-1.1
  • openbao >= 2.4.1-1.1
  • openbao-agent >= 2.4.1-1.1
  • openbao-cassandra-database-plugin >= 2.4.1-1.1
  • openbao-influxdb-database-plugin >= 2.4.1-1.1
  • openbao-mysql-database-plugin >= 2.4.1-1.1
  • openbao-mysql-legacy-database-plugin >= 2.4.1-1.1
  • openbao-postgresql-database-plugin >= 2.4.1-1.1
  • openbao-server >= 2.4.1-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-15538
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-15579

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Aug 29 00:01:13 2025
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 20:04:44 2025