CVE-2023-6337

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 inVault 1.15.4, 1.14.8, 1.13.12.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
7.5 HIGH
NETWORK
LOW
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
HashiCorpCNA
7.5 HIGH
NETWORK
LOW
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVEADP
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 72%
VendorProductVersion
hashicorpvault
𝑥
≤ 1.12.0
hashicorpvault
𝑥
≤ 1.12.0
hashicorpvault
1.13.0 ≤
𝑥
< 1.13.12
hashicorpvault
1.13.0 ≤
𝑥
< 1.13.12
hashicorpvault
1.14.0 ≤
𝑥
< 1.14.8
hashicorpvault
1.14.0 ≤
𝑥
< 1.14.8
hashicorpvault
1.15.0 ≤
𝑥
< 1.15.4
hashicorpvault
1.15.0 ≤
𝑥
< 1.15.4
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
Common Weakness Enumeration
References
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-34-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-handling-large-http-requests/60741
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240112-0006/
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-34-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-handling-large-http-requests/60741
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240112-0006/