#VU82954 Resource exhaustion in Vault and Vault Enterprise - CVE-2023-5954

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#VU82954 Resource exhaustion in Vault and Vault Enterprise - CVE-2023-5954

Published: November 10, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU82954
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-5954
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Vault
Vault Enterprise
Software vendor:
HashiCorp

Description

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 policy requests. A remote attacker can send multiple requests to the application, which trigger policy checks and consume large amounts of memory, leading to a denial of service condition.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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