Resource exhaustion in Vault Enterprise and Vault - CVE-2023-5954
Published: November 10, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU82954
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-5954
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
Vault Enterprise
Vault
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Vault
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
How to mitigate CVE-2023-5954
Install updates from vendor's website.
Vault Enterprise - addressed in versions 1.13.10, 1.14.6, 1.15.2
Vault - addressed in versions 1.13.10, 1.14.6, 1.15.2
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.5.0
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - update to 4.17.0
Vault - addressed in versions 1.13.10, 1.14.6, 1.15.2
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.5.0
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - update to 4.17.0