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CVE-2025-4656

Vault Vulnerable to Recovery Key Cancellation Denial of Service

LOW
3.1
CVSS Score
Published: June 25, 2025 at 04:15 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:33 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorVault

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Severity
LOW3.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Vault· Hashicorp
95%
1.14.8 ≤ v < 1.16.221.14.8 ≤ v < 1.20.01.17.0 ≤ v < 1.17.171.18.0 ≤ v < 1.18.111.19.0 ≤ v < 1.19.61.14.8
Affected range stops below 1.16.22, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.17.17, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.18.11, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.19.6, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.20.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (1)

Vendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-11-vault-vulnerable-to-recovery-key-cancellation-denial-of-service/75570

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

3.1LOWHashiCorp
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-1088

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