Riskcovery

CVE-2023-6337

Vault May be Vulnerable to a Denial of Service Through Memory Exhaustion When Handling Large HTTP Requests

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Dec 8, 2023
Updated
Feb 13, 2025
Reserved
Nov 27, 2023

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HHashiCorp

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

ProductVersions
VaultHashiCorp
  • 1.12.0 to before 1.15.4Affectedfrom 1.14.8Not affectedfrom 1.13.2Not affected
Vault EnterpriseHashiCorp
  • 1.12.0 to before 1.15.4Affectedfrom 1.14.8Not affectedfrom 1.13.2Not affected

References

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