CVE-2023-5954

Published: Nov 9, 2023

Modified: Feb 13, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.9

MEDIUM

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
HashiCorp	Vault	affected `1.15.0` affected `1.15.1` affected `1.14.3` affected `1.14.4` affected `1.14.5` +3 more versions
HashiCorp	Vault Enterprise	affected `1.15.0` affected `1.15.1` affected `1.14.3` affected `1.14.4` affected `1.14.5` +3 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-401

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

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/

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CVE-2023-5954

Description

Affected Products

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

References