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High· 7.5GHSA-4qhc-v8r6-8vwm CVE-2023-5954CWE-401Published Nov 9, 2023

HashiCorp Vault Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability

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Affected versions

0 → fixed in 1.13.101.14.0 → fixed in 1.14.61.15.0 → fixed in 1.15.2

Details

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.

The fix

No fix commit could be resolved for this advisory (it may reference an issue tracker or a non-GitHub patch). See the references below.

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