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Medium· 5.3GHSA-9v3w-w2jh-4hff CVE-2023-3462CWE-203Published Aug 1, 2023

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise vulnerable to user enumeration

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Affected versions

0 → fixed in 1.13.51.14.0 → fixed in 1.14.1

Details

HashiCorp's Vault and Vault Enterprise are vulnerable to user enumeration when using the LDAP auth method. An attacker may submit requests of existent and non-existent LDAP users and observe the response from Vault to check if the account is valid on the LDAP server. This vulnerability is fixed in Vault 1.14.1 and 1.13.5.

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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