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CVE-2025-4656
Vault Vulnerable to Recovery Key Cancellation Denial of Service
Low3.1EPSS 0.27%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- HashiCorp
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| HashiCorpCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Low3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.27% · top 81% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.1.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 1.14.8 – < 1.20.0
- affected 1.14.8 – < 1.20.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/hashicorp/vaultGHSA-fhc2-8qx8-6vj7 (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-fhc2-8qx8-6vj7 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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