CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-5954
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-11-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
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.
Affected configurations
• hashicorp vault (>= 1.13.7 < 1.13.10)
• hashicorp vault (>= 1.14.3 < 1.14.6)
• hashicorp vault (>= 1.15.0 < 1.15.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-33-vault-requests-triggering-policy-checks-may-lead-to-unbounded-memory-consumption/59926 Vendor Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231227-0001/ security.netapp.com
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-33-vault-requests-triggering-policy-checks-may-lead-to-unbounded-memory-consumption/59926 Vendor Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231227-0001/ security.netapp.com