Riskcovery

CVE-2023-4680

Vault's Transit Secrets Engine Allowed Nonce Specified without Convergent Encryption

State
Published
Severity
6.8 Medium
Published
Sep 14, 2023
Updated
Sep 26, 2024
Reserved
Aug 31, 2023

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Description

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise transit secrets engine allowed authorized users to specify arbitrary nonces, even with convergent encryption disabled. The encrypt endpoint, in combination with an offline attack, could be used to decrypt arbitrary ciphertext and potentially derive the authentication subkey when using transit secrets engine without convergent encryption. Introduced in 1.6.0 and fixed in 1.14.3, 1.13.7, and 1.12.11.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.8 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NHashiCorp

Weaknesses

  • CWE-323 Reusing a Nonce, Key Pair in Encryption

Affected Products

ProductVersions
VaultHashiCorp
  • 1.14.0 to before 1.14.3Affected
  • 1.13.0 to before 1.13.7Affected
  • 1.12.0 to before 1.12.11Affected
  • 1.6.0 to before 1.12.0Affected
Vault EnterpriseHashiCorp
  • 1.14.0 to before 1.14.3Affected
  • 1.13.0 to before 1.13.7Affected
  • 1.12.0 to before 1.12.11Affected
  • 1.6.0 to before 1.12.0Affected

References

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