Riskcovery

CVE-2023-5954

Vault Requests Triggering Policy Checks May Lead To Unbounded Memory Consumption

State
Published
Severity
5.9 Medium
Published
Nov 9, 2023
Updated
Feb 13, 2025
Reserved
Nov 3, 2023

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HHashiCorp

Weaknesses

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Affected Products

ProductVersions
VaultHashiCorp
  • 1.15.0Affected
  • 1.15.1Affected
  • 1.14.3Affected
  • 1.14.4Affected
  • 1.14.5Affected
  • 1.13.7Affected
  • 1.13.8Affected
  • 1.13.9Affected
Vault EnterpriseHashiCorp
  • 1.15.0Affected
  • 1.15.1Affected
  • 1.14.3Affected
  • 1.14.4Affected
  • 1.14.5Affected
  • 1.13.7Affected
  • 1.13.8Affected
  • 1.13.9Affected

References

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