CVE-2025-4656
LOW3.1EPSS 0.10%Vault Community Edition rekey and recovery key operations can cause denial of service
Published: 6/26/2025Modified: 2/4/2026
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Bitnami/vault>= 1.14.8, < 1.20.0
- Go/github.com/hashicorp/vault>= 1.14.8, < 1.20.0
- Go/github.com/hashicorp/vault>= 1.14.8, < 1.20.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | LOW3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
References (5)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fhc2-8qx8-6vj7
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4656
- PATCHhttps://github.com/hashicorp/vault
- WEBhttps://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-11-vault-vulnerable-to-recovery-key-cancellation-denial-of-service/75570
- WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/30794