CVE-2025-4656 (GCVE-0-2025-4656)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-25 16:15 – Updated: 2025-06-25 20:05
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Summary
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.
Severity ?
3.1 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-1088 - Synchronous Access of Remote Resource without Timeout
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HashiCorp Vault Affected: 1.14.8 , < 1.20.0 (semver)
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