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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-28064 Vault Community Edition rekey and recovery key operations can cause denial of service
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-fhc2-8qx8-6vj7 Vault Community Edition rekey and recovery key operations can cause denial of service
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 03:15:00 +0900

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 22:45:00 +0900

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00043}

epss

{'score': 0.00013}


Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:30:00 +0900

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References
Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Low


Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:15:00 +0900

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

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


Thu, 26 Jun 2025 01:30:00 +0900

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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'}


Projects

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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

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses