Vault Community and Vault Enterprise rekey and recovery key operations can lead to a denial of service due to uncontrolled cancellation by a Vault operator. This vulnerability (CVE-2025-4656) has been remediated in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.0, 1.19.6, 1.18.11, 1.17.17, and 1.16.22.
History

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Hashicorp
Hashicorp vault
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Hashicorp
Hashicorp vault

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00043}

epss

{'score': 0.00013}


Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Low


Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:30:00 +0000

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Description Vault Community and Vault Enterprise rekey and recovery key operations can lead to a denial of service due to uncontrolled cancellation by a Vault operator. This vulnerability (CVE-2025-4656) has been remediated in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.0, 1.19.6, 1.18.11, 1.17.17, and 1.16.22.
Title Vault Vulnerable to Recovery Key Cancellation Denial of Service
Weaknesses CWE-1088
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: HashiCorp

Published:

Updated: 2025-06-25T20:05:45.581Z

Reserved: 2025-05-13T15:30:55.244Z

Link: CVE-2025-4656

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-06-25T20:05:29.383Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-06-25T17:15:38.440

Modified: 2025-08-13T18:02:04.647

Link: CVE-2025-4656

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2025-06-25T16:15:11Z

Links: CVE-2025-4656 - Bugzilla