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CVE-2025-4656

Vault Vulnerable to Recovery Key Cancellation Denial of Service

Published: Jun 25, 2025Updated: Aug 13, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-1088
NVD MITRE
3.1CVSSLOW
EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 88.4%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:HPR:NUI:RS:UC:NI:NA:L
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:HAttack Complexity
High
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:RUser Interaction
Required
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:LAvailability
Low
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Weaknesses

CWE-1088

Affected Products

VaultHashiCorp
SaaSSaaS Service
Cloud & SaaS
Vault EnterpriseHashiCorp
SaaSSaaS Service
Cloud & SaaS
github.com/hashicorp/vaultGoOSS Libraries
vaulthashicorp
SaaSSaaS Service
Cloud & SaaS
РЕД ОСООО «Ред Софт»
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
hashicorpcommercialUSCloud & SaaSaka hashicorp inc.
gopackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries
ооо «ред софт»commercialRUOperating Systemsaka red soft
and 1 more affected products View all →

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-11-vault-vulnerable-to-recovery-key-cancellation-denial-of-service/75570
discuss.hashicorp.com
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4656
nvd.nist.gov
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/30794
github.com
and 3 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Jun 25, 2025
Last Updated
Aug 13, 2025

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