CVE-2025-4656
Vault Vulnerable to Recovery Key Cancellation Denial of Service
3.1
LOW
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.10%
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.
How to fix CVE-2025-4656
To remediate CVE-2025-4656, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.20.0 or later
- —upgrade to 1.20.0 or later
- —upgrade to 1.20.0 or later
Is CVE-2025-4656 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- >= 1.14.8, < 1.20.0
- >= 1.14.8, < 1.20.0
- >= 1.14.8, < 1.20.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | LOW3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |