CVE-2023-6337 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Vault

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling6 documents5 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.0%
top 22.99%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
8
Hashicorp VaultHashicorp Vault EnterpriseGithub.com Hashicorp Vault+5 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 8
Latest updateJan 3

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages9 packages

▶CVEListV5hashicorp/vault_enterprise1.12.0 — 1.15.4
▶CVEListV5hashicorp/vault1.12.0 — 1.15.4
▶NVDhashicorp/vault1.13.0 — 1.13.12+3
▶Gogithub.com/hashicorp_vault1.12.0 — 1.13.12+2

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
Denial of service via memory exhaustion in github.com/hashicorp/vault↗2024-01-03
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GHSA
Memory exhaustion in HashiCorp Vault↗2023-12-09
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OSV
Memory exhaustion in HashiCorp Vault↗2023-12-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Microsoft
Vault May be Vulnerable to a Denial of Service Through Memory Exhaustion When Handling Large HTTP Requests↗2023-12-12
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Red Hat
hashicorp-vault: denial of service through memory exhaustion↗2023-12-08
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