CVE-2023-5954: medium-severity vulnerability in HashiCorp Vault
Vault Requests Triggering Policy Checks May Lead To Unbounded Memory Consumption
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.9epss 0.7%
exploitation probability
0.7%top 48% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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