HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.12.0 and newer are vulnerable to a denial of service through memory exhaustion of the host when handling large unauthenticated and authenticated HTTP requests from a client. Vault will attempt to map the request to memory, resulting in the exhaustion of available memory on the host, which may cause Vault to crash.

Fixed in Vault 1.15.4, 1.14.8, 1.13.12.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-3128 HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.12.0 and newer are vulnerable to a denial of service through memory exhaustion of the host when handling large unauthenticated and authenticated HTTP requests from a client. Vault will attempt to map the request to memory, resulting in the exhaustion of available memory on the host, which may cause Vault to crash. Fixed in Vault 1.15.4, 1.14.8, 1.13.12.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5 Memory exhaustion in HashiCorp Vault
Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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History

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:30:00 +0000

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Description HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.12.0 and newer are vulnerable to a denial of service through memory exhaustion of the host when handling large unauthenticated and authenticated HTTP requests from a client. Vault will attempt to map the request to memory, resulting in the exhaustion of available memory on the host, which may cause Vault to crash. Fixed in Vault 1.15.4, 1.14.8, 1.13.12. HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.12.0 and newer are vulnerable to a denial of service through memory exhaustion of the host when handling large unauthenticated and authenticated HTTP requests from a client. Vault will attempt to map the request to memory, resulting in the exhaustion of available memory on the host, which may cause Vault to crash. Fixed in Vault 1.15.4, 1.14.8, 1.13.12.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: HashiCorp

Published:

Updated: 2025-02-13T17:26:18.153Z

Reserved: 2023-11-27T18:55:16.606Z

Link: CVE-2023-6337

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-12-08T22:15:07.713

Modified: 2025-02-13T18:16:08.143

Link: CVE-2023-6337

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-12-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-6337 - Bugzilla

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