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CVE-2023-4680GHSA-V84F-6R39-CPFCBIT-VAULT-2023-4680GO-2023-2063

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

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.14.3, 1.13.7, 1.12.11, 1.12.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • HashiCorp Vault

    From 1.14.0 · fixed in 1.14.3; From 1.13.0 · fixed in 1.13.7; From 1.12.0 · fixed in 1.12.11; From 1.6.0 · fixed in 1.12.0

  • HashiCorp Vault Enterprise

    From 1.14.0 · fixed in 1.14.3; From 1.13.0 · fixed in 1.13.7; From 1.12.0 · fixed in 1.12.11; From 1.6.0 · fixed in 1.12.0

  • github.com/hashicorp/vaultGo

    From 1.6.0 · fixed in 1.12.11

  • github.com/hashicorp/vaultGo

    From 1.13.0 · fixed in 1.13.7

  • github.com/hashicorp/vaultGo

    From 1.14.0 · fixed in 1.14.3

  • github.com/hashicorp/vaultGo

    From 1.6.0 · fixed in 1.12.11; From 1.13.0 · fixed in 1.13.7; From 1.14.0 · fixed in 1.14.3

References 1

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