CVE-2023-5954

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise inbound client requests triggering a policy check can lead to an unbounded consumption of memory. A large number of these requests may lead to denial-of-service. Fixed in Vault 1.15.2, 1.14.6, and 1.13.10.

Published: Nov 9, 2023
Updated: May 9, 2024
CVE: CVE-2023-5954
GHSA: GHSA-4qhc-v8r6-8vwm
Severity: High
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: High
Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWEs:

CWE-401

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
github.com/hashicorp/vault	-	1.13.10
github.com/hashicorp/vault	1.14.0	1.14.6
github.com/hashicorp/vault	1.15.0	1.15.2
hashicorp / vault	1.15.0	1.15.2
hashicorp / vault	1.14.3	1.14.6
hashicorp / vault	1.13.7	1.13.10

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-33-vault-requests-triggering-policy-checks-may-lead-to-unbounded-memory-consumption/59926
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231227-0001
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231227-0001/

Vulnerability Database

CVE-2023-5954

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