# CVE-2025-4656: Vault Vulnerable to Recovery Key Cancellation Denial of Service

> CVE-2025-4656: Vault Vulnerable to Recovery Key Cancellation Denial of Service. CVSS 3.1 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-4656
Last updated: 2026-06-17T09:33:41Z

- Published: 2025-06-25 16:15 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 09:33 UTC · Assigner: HashiCorp
- CVSS: 3.1 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Low · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- EPSS: 0.27%, 18th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-1088

## 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.

## Affected vendors and products

- HashiCorp: Vault
- HashiCorp: Vault Enterprise

## Tracked companies

- [HashiCorp](https://rewindex.com/company/hashicorp.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4656)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4656)
- [https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-11-vault-vulnerable-to-recovery-key-cancellation-denial-of-service/75570](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-11-vault-vulnerable-to-recovery-key-cancellation-denial-of-service/75570)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-4656 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-4656.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-4656 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:46:26.774Z