{"id":"CVE-2025-4656","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-4656","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:55:19.905Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2025-06-25T17:15:38.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:33:42.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"security@hashicorp.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":3.1,"severity":"LOW","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"},"cwe":["CWE-1088"],"affected":["hashicorp/vault"],"epss":{"score":0.00266,"percentile":0.18349,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.27%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-11-vault-vulnerable-to-recovery-key-cancellation-denial-of-service/75570","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@hashicorp.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4656","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}