SB2023121129 - Remote denial of service in HashiCorp Vault
Published: December 11, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023121129
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-6337)
CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling large unauthenticated and authenticated HTTP requests from a client. A remote attacker can send large HTTP requests to the application, consume all available memory resources and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.