CVE-2025-4656 (GCVE-0-2025-4656)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-25 16:15 – Updated: 2025-06-25 20:05
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Vault Vulnerable to Recovery Key Cancellation Denial of Service
Summary
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.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-25 20:05 UTC
CWE
- CWE-1088 - Synchronous Access of Remote Resource without Timeout
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HashiCorp | Vault |
Affected:
1.14.8 , < 1.20.0
(semver)
|
guessed | |
| HashiCorp | Vault Enterprise |
Affected:
1.14.8 , < 1.20.0
(semver)
|
guessed |
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