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CVE-2023-6337GO-2023-2399BIT-VAULT-2023-6337GHSA-6P62-6CG9-F5F5

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

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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.13.2, 1.13.12, 1.14.8, 1.15.4
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • HashiCorp Vault

    From 1.12.0 · fixed in 1.13.2

  • HashiCorp Vault Enterprise

    From 1.12.0 · fixed in 1.13.2

  • github.com/hashicorp/vaultGo

    From 1.12.0 · fixed in 1.13.12; From 1.14.0 · fixed in 1.14.8; From 1.15.0 · fixed in 1.15.4

  • github.com/hashicorp/vaultGo

    From 1.15.0 · fixed in 1.15.4

  • github.com/hashicorp/vaultGo

    From 1.14.0 · fixed in 1.14.8

  • github.com/hashicorp/vaultGo

    From 1.12.0 · fixed in 1.13.12

References 2

discuss.hashicorp.com

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