{"cve":"CVE-2025-4656","nvd":{"published":"2025-06-25T17:15:38.440","modified":"2026-06-17T09:33:41.600","status":"Analyzed","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_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","score":3.1},"cwes":["CWE-1088"],"references":["https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-11-vault-vulnerable-to-recovery-key-cancellation-denial-of-service/75570"],"products":["hashicorp:vault"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:03:23.287444849+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-4656","score":0.00266,"percentile":0.1856,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-fhc2-8qx8-6vj7","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-fhc2-8qx8-6vj7","summary":"Vault Community Edition rekey and recovery key operations can cause denial of service","modified":"2026-09-10T03:50:25.140325691Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/hashicorp/vault","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault","ranges":[">=1.14.8 <1.20.0"],"fixed":["1.20.0"]}]},{"id":"GO-2025-3788","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GO-2025-3788","summary":"Vault Community Edition rekey and recovery key operations can cause denial of service in github.com/hashicorp/vault","modified":"2026-02-04T02:52:39.683629Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/hashicorp/vault","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault","ranges":[">=1.14.8 <1.20.0"],"fixed":["1.20.0"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}