GHSA-4qhc-v8r6-8vwm

HashiCorp Vault Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2023-5954

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Go	github.com/hashicorp/vault	< 1.13.10	1.13.10
Go	github.com/hashicorp/vault	>= 1.14.0, < 1.14.6	1.14.6
Go	github.com/hashicorp/vault	>= 1.15.0, < 1.15.2	1.15.2

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5954 advisory
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-33-vault-requests-triggering-policy-checks-may-lead-to-unbounded-memory-consumption/59926 web
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault package
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231227-0001 web