3.1

CVE-2025-4656: hashicorp vault

CVSS: 3.1v3.1LowAnalyzed
AliasesCGA-ph6f-23hg-cwwmCGA-v4mg-8w2j-wgf7GHSA-fhc2-8qx8-6vj7
Published 25-06-2025Last modified 25-06-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-4656 is a low (CVSS 3.1) vulnerability in hashicorp vault. EPSS estimates a 0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
12/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
3.1/10
010
Low · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.27%
0%100%
Low · +0.02 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 3
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15254-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15405-1CGA-CFJR-38XX-55VF

Timeline

  1. 25-06-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 25-06-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.27%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

17%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.02 pp

From 0.25% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.27%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard6 products
  • splunk-otel-collector< 0.138.0-r0
  • splunk-otel-collector-fips< 0.138.0-r1
  • vault-1.16All versions (No fix recorded)
  • vault-1.17All versions (No fix recorded)
  • vault-1.18All versions (No fix recorded)
Hashicorp2 products
  • vault≥ 1.14.8, < 1.16.22 | ≥ 1.14.8, < 1.20.0 | ≥ 1.17.0, < 1.17.17 | ≥ 1.18.0, < 1.18.11 | ≥ 1.19.0, < 1.19.6
  • vault enterprise≥ 1.14.8, < 1.20.0
Github.com/hashicorp1 product
  • vault≥ 1.14.8, < 1.20.0
Wolfi1 product
  • splunk-otel-collector< 0.138.0-r0

4 vendors · 10 products

References

6 links