Resource exhaustion in Vault Enterprise and Vault - CVE-2023-6337
Published: December 11, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU84044
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-2023-6337
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 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.
Affected software
Vault Enterprise
Vault
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
Vault
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
How to mitigate CVE-2023-6337
Install updates from vendor's website.
Vault Enterprise - addressed in versions 1.13.12, 1.14.8, 1.15.4
Vault - addressed in versions 1.13.12, 1.14.8, 1.15.4
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.6.0
Vault - addressed in versions 1.13.12, 1.14.8, 1.15.4
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.6.0