CVE-2023-6337

HIGH

HashiCorp Vault <1.15.4-1.14.8-1.13.12 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

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 (2)

Core 2

Core References

Vendor Advisory

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-34-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-handling-large-http-requests/60741

Vendor Advisory

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240112-0006/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0100

EPSS Percentile 77.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-770

Status published

Products (2)

hashicorp/vault < 1.12.0 (2 CPE variants)

hashicorp/vault 1.15.0 - 1.15.4Go

Published Dec 08, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026