Vulnerability · CVE-2025-4656
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.
Published Jun 25, 2025 · catalog updated Jun 25, 2025 · Hashicorp Vault
Check this week
CVE-2025-4656 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 27.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run Hashicorp Vault.
Gaps on this record
- No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
- Severity
- Low3.1
- Known exploitation
- Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 27.00%
- Remediation
- Version ranges on file
- Affected products
- vendor Hashicorp Vault 1.14.8 <1.20.0
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.
Are you affected?
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- vendor Hashicorp Vault 1.14.8 <1.20.01.14.8 <1.20.0
How to fix CVE-2025-4656
Recommended remediation
Affected version ranges suggest a fixed boundary. Verify against the vendor advisory for your release.
Official advisories
What to do
Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.
Should you patch?
CVE-2025-4656 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 27.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run Hashicorp Vault.
Which versions are affected?
Compare what you have installed with Hashicorp Vault 1.14.8 <1.20.0 1.14.8 <1.20.0. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.
What should an analyst verify?
No weakness class is stored. EPSS 27.00%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.
Code
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No public source repository is identified for this product.
Timeline
Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
Jun 25, 2025 · EUVD
Detected
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.
Jun 25, 2025 · EUVD
Updated
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.
Sources
- CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-4656
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-28064
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.
euvd.enisa.europa.eu
References
Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Jun 25, 2025. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.