CVE-2023-6337 Vulnerability Details

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CVE-2023-6337 Metadata Quick Info

CVE Published: 08/12/2023 | CVE Updated: 02/08/2024 | CVE Year: 2023
Source: HashiCorp | Vendor: HashiCorp | Product: Vault
Status : PUBLISHED

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CVE-2023-6337 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.

Metrics

CVSS Version: 3.1 | Base Score: 7.5 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

l➤ Exploitability Metrics:
    Attack Vector (AV)* NETWORK
    Attack Complexity (AC)* LOW
    Privileges Required (PR)* NONE
    User Interaction (UI)* NONE
    Scope (S)* UNCHANGED

l➤ Impact Metrics:
    Confidentiality Impact (C)* NONE
    Integrity Impact (I)* NONE
    Availability Impact (A)* HIGH

Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-ID: CWE-770
CWE Name: CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Source: HashiCorp

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

CAPEC-ID: CAPEC-130
CAPEC Description: CAPEC-130 Excessive Allocation


Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database).