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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2023-5954 BIT-vault-2023-5954EUVD-2023-2881GHSA-4qhc-v8r6-8vwmGO-2023-2329

Vault Requests Triggering Policy Checks May Lead To Unbounded Memory Consumption

Published Nov 9, 2023 · Updated Feb 13, 2025 · Assigned by HashiCorp

Description

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise inbound client requests triggering a policy check can lead to an unbounded consumption of memory. A large number of these requests may lead to denial-of-service. Fixed in Vault 1.15.2, 1.14.6, and 1.13.10.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
HashiCorp Vault 1.15.0, 1.15.1, 1.14.3, 1.14.4, 1.14.5, 1.13.7, 1.13.8, 1.13.9 —
HashiCorp Vault Enterprise 1.15.0, 1.15.1, 1.14.3, 1.14.4, 1.14.5, 1.13.7, 1.13.8, 1.13.9 —

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.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling k3d +2 5.6.0-r11 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault < 1.13.10 1.13.10 GHSA-4qhc-v8r6-8vwm
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.6 1.14.6 GHSA-4qhc-v8r6-8vwm
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.2 1.15.2 GHSA-4qhc-v8r6-8vwm
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault < 1.13.10 · >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.6 · >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.2 1.13.10, 1.14.6, 1.15.2 GO-2023-2329

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