HashiCorp Vault/Vault Enterprise up to 1.15.2 HTTP Request allocation of resources

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise. The affected element is an unknown function of the component HTTP Request Handler. The manipulation leads to allocation of resources. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-6337. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component HTTP Request Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was shared 12/09/2023. It is possible to read the advisory at discuss.hashicorp.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-6337 since 11/27/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 296047 (Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: cert-manager (CVE-2023-6337)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.15.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (296047). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• HashiCorp

Name

• Vault
• Vault Enterprise

Version

• 1.2.5
• 1.3.4
• 1.3.6
• 1.3.7
• 1.3.8
• 1.4.0
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.3
• 1.4.4
• 1.5.0
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.6
• 1.5.7
• 1.5.8
• 1.5.9
• 1.6.0
• 1.6.1
• 1.6.2
• 1.6.3
• 1.6.4
• 1.6.5
• 1.6.6
• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.7.4
• 1.7.5
• 1.7.6
• 1.7.7
• 1.8.0
• 1.8.3
• 1.8.4
• 1.8.5
• 1.8.6
• 1.9.0
• 1.9.1
• 1.9.10
• 1.10.0
• 1.10.1
• 1.10.2
• 1.10.3
• 1.10.6
• 1.10.7
• 1.10.11
• 1.11.3
• 1.11.4
• 1.11.7
• 1.11.8
• 1.11.9
• 1.12.0
• 1.12.3
• 1.12.4
• 1.12.5
• 1.12.11
• 1.13.0
• 1.13.1
• 1.13.5
• 1.13.7
• 1.13.8
• 1.13.9
• 1.13.10
• 1.14.0
• 1.14.1
• 1.14.3
• 1.14.4
• 1.14.5
• 1.14.6
• 1.14.10
• 1.15
• 1.15.0
• 1.15.1
• 1.15.2

License

• open-source

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