Vulnerability Report

CVE-2025-4656

Title: Hashicorp Vault Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2025-4656.

CWE Category CWE-1088

Published Date Jun 25, 2025

Modified Date Aug 13, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.1 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.11%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2025-4656: 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.

Impacted Vendors

tibco 1

hashicorp 1

Reference Links

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-11-vault-vulnerable-to-recovery-key-cancellation-denial-of-service/75570

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2025-4656 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

August 13, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 13, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

June 25, 2025 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity HIGH

Privileges N/A

Interaction REQUIRED

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.