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 in Vault 1.15.4, 1.14.8, 1.13.12.
Configurations

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cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
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cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*

History

13 Feb 2025, 18:16

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Summary (en) 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. (en) 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.

21 Nov 2024, 08:43

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References () https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-34-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-handling-large-http-requests/60741 - Vendor Advisory () https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-34-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-handling-large-http-requests/60741 - Vendor Advisory
References () https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240112-0006/ - () https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240112-0006/ -

12 Jan 2024, 14:15

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References
  • () https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240112-0006/ -

13 Dec 2023, 18:06

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CWE CWE-770
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.5
CPE cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
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://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-34-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-handling-large-http-requests/60741 - Vendor Advisory
First Time Hashicorp
Hashicorp vault

08 Dec 2023, 22:15

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2023-12-08 22:15

Updated : 2025-02-13 18:16


NVD link : CVE-2023-6337

Mitre link : CVE-2023-6337

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-6337


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Products Affected

hashicorp

  • vault
CWE
CWE-770

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