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SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/vault (GHSA-8f82-53h8-2p34)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 435155

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2025-6203)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8f82-53h8-2p34

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 435155

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.39

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-6203

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/28/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/28/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-6203

cwe: CWE-770