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.
The code has a synchronous call to a remote resource, but there is no timeout for the call, or the timeout is set to infinite.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vault | Hashicorp | 1.14.8 (including) | 1.16.22 (excluding) |
| Vault | Hashicorp | 1.14.8 (including) | 1.20.0 (excluding) |
| Vault | Hashicorp | 1.17.0 (including) | 1.17.17 (excluding) |
| Vault | Hashicorp | 1.18.0 (including) | 1.18.11 (excluding) |
| Vault | Hashicorp | 1.19.0 (including) | 1.19.6 (excluding) |