Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-4656

Low

Published: 25 June 2025

Published
25 June 2025
Modified
13 August 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0011 28.9th percentile
Risk Priority 6 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-4656 is a low-severity Synchronous Access of Remote Resource without Timeout (CWE-1088) vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault. Its CVSS base score is 3.1 (Low).

Operationally, ranked at the 28.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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,…

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1.19.6, 1.18.11, 1.17.17, and 1.16.22.

CWE(s)
CWE-1088

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

hashicorp
vault
1.14.8 — 1.16.22 · 1.14.8 — 1.20.0 · 1.17.0 — 1.17.17

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References