CVE-2023-5954
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.64%HashiCorp Vault Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability
Published: 11/9/2023Modified: 2/4/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Bitnami/vault>= 1.13.7, < 1.13.10, >= 1.14.3, < 1.14.6, >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.2
- Go/github.com/hashicorp/vaultfrom 0, < 1.13.10
- Go/github.com/hashicorp/vaultfrom 0, < 1.13.10, >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.6, >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4qhc-v8r6-8vwm
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5954
- PATCHhttps://github.com/hashicorp/vault
- WEBhttps://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-33-vault-requests-triggering-policy-checks-may-lead-to-unbounded-memory-consumption/59926
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231227-0001
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231227-0001/