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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2023-6337

Vault May be Vulnerable to a Denial of Service Through Memory Exhaustion When Handling Large HTTP Requests

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

HashiCorp Vault

Default version status: unaffected

  • 1.12.0 to < 1.15.4affected

HashiCorp Vault Enterprise

Default version status: unaffected

  • 1.12.0 to < 1.15.4affected

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