GHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5

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    GHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5

    Published: 9 Dec 2023Last Modified: 13 Feb 2025

    Summary: Memory exhaustion in HashiCorp Vault

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6337, https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/24354, https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-34-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-handling-large-http-requests/60741, https://github.com/hashicorp/vault, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240112-0006

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: github.com/hashicorp/vault

    Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 1.15.0
    Fixed -1.15.4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High