CVE-2023-5954CWE-401

Vault Requests Triggering Policy Checks May Lead To Unbounded Memory Consumption

Medium · published November 9, 2023

CVSS v3.1
5.9
EPSS
1%
Percentile
53.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00719 · 53.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Published
2023-11-09T20:13Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 NOV 20:13Z
    Vault Requests Triggering Policy Checks May Lead To Unbounded Memory Consumption
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