GO-2023-2399

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    GO-2023-2399

    Published: 3 Jan 2024Last Modified: 20 May 2024

    Summary: Denial of service via memory exhaustion in github.com/hashicorp/vault

    Details: Unauthenticated and authenticated HTTP requests from a client will be attempted to be mapped to memory. Large requests may result in the exhaustion of available memory on the host, which may cause crashes and denial of service.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6337, 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/pull/24354

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: github.com/hashicorp/vault

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 1.12.0
    Fixed -1.13.12

    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
    GO-2023-2399 | CVE-DB