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 Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- high
- Privileges
- none
- User Action
- required
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- low
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1088
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- HASHICORP
- Published
- 6/25/2025
- Last Modified
- 8/13/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
hashicorp : vaulthashicorp : vaulthashicorp : vaulthashicorp : vaulthashicorp : vault
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