Vault Vulnerable to Recovery Key Cancellation Denial of Service

{
  "id": "a49122576cb4536bf7ac8d30da4cb1924e614b3ccefaceb4762a1577cbef2649",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-4656",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Vault Vulnerable to Recovery Key Cancellation Denial of Service",
    "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2025-4656",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "low",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2025-4656",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-vault-2025-4656",
        "CVE-2025-4656",
        "GHSA-fhc2-8qx8-6vj7",
        "GO-2025-3788"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/hashicorp/vault",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "446f213c47cabf47d52d065647ef666ce4bf8692"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "6fdd6b59e97d97a9e19b0fb5304bf879c190295e"
                }
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              "database_specific": {
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                      {
                        "introduced": "1.14.8"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.20.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                    "strategy": "StandardRange"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.14.8"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.20.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-4656.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:53.002147263Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-11-vault-vulnerable-to-recovery-key-cancellation-denial-of-service/75570",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/4xxx/CVE-2025-4656.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4656",
        "https://github.com/hashicorp/vault"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-1088"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "HashiCorp",
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "1.14.8"
                  },
                  {
                    "fixed": "1.19.6"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                "strategy": "ChangesAt"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/4xxx/CVE-2025-4656.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2025-4656",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 521905,
  "published_at": "2025-06-25T16:15:11.861+00:00"
}