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Low · 2.5 CVE-2023-2197 EUVD-2023-33710GHSA-33j2-92xf-fwm3

Vault Enterprise Vulnerable to Padding Oracle Attacks When Using a CBC-based Encryption Mechanism with a HSM

Published May 1, 2023 · Updated Feb 13, 2025 · Assigned by HashiCorp

Description

HashiCorp Vault Enterprise 1.13.0 up to 1.13.1 is vulnerable to a padding oracle attack when using an HSM in conjunction with the CKM_AES_CBC_PAD or CKM_AES_CBC encryption mechanisms. An attacker with privileges to modify storage and restart Vault may be able to intercept or modify cipher text in order to derive Vault’s root key. Fixed in 1.13.2

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
HashiCorp Vault Enterprise 1.13.0 – ≤ 1.13.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.18 vault 1.13.2-r0 —

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