CVE-2025-4656

Vault Vulnerable to Recovery Key Cancellation Denial of Service

State: Published
Severity: 3.1 Low
Published: Jun 25, 2025
Updated: Jun 25, 2025
Reserved: May 13, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	3.1 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	HashiCorp

Weaknesses

CWE-1088 Synchronous Access of Remote Resource without Timeout

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VaultHashiCorp	1.14.8 to before 1.20.0Affected
Vault EnterpriseHashiCorp	1.14.8 to before 1.20.0Affectedfrom 1.19.6Not affectedfrom 1.18.11Not affectedfrom 1.17.17Not affectedfrom 1.16.22Not affected

References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-11-vault-vulnerable-to-recovery-key-cancellation-denial-of-service/75570

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