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CVE-2023-6337

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CVE-2023-6337

Published: Dec 8, 2023

Modified: Feb 13, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.5

HIGH

Description

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.12.0 and newer are vulnerable to a denial of service through memory exhaustion of the host when handling large unauthenticated and authenticated HTTP requests from a client. Vault will attempt to map the request to memory, resulting in the exhaustion of available memory on the host, which may cause Vault to crash. Fixed in Vault 1.15.4, 1.14.8, 1.13.12.

VendorProductVersions

HashiCorp

Vault

affected
1.12.0 - < 1.15.4

HashiCorp

Vault Enterprise

affected
1.12.0 - < 1.15.4

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

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