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CVE-2023-4680

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-4680 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 1.6.0 through 1.14.2, 1.13.0 through 1.13.6, and 1.12.0 through 1.12.10. It allows authorized users of the transit secrets engine to specify arbitrary nonces, even when convergent encryption is disabled. This flaw, rated with a CVSS score of 6.8, could enable an attacker to decrypt arbitrary ciphertext and potentially derive the authentication subkey through an offline attack. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.6.0, < 1.12.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.6.0, < 1.12.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 1.13.0, < 1.13.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.13.0, < 1.13.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 1.14.0, < 1.14.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.8MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 25th percentile among its peer group of 1,428 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/hashicorp/vaultFixed in: 1.12.11
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/hashicorp/vaultFixed in: 1.13.7
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/hashicorp/vaultFixed in: 1.14.3

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2023-4680Moderate

vault: HashiCorp Vault Improper Input Validation vulnerability in github.com/hashicorp/vault

Nov 6, 2023
goGHSA-v84f-6r39-cpfcmedium

HashiCorp Vault Improper Input Validation vulnerability

Sep 15, 2023

References

discuss.hashicorp.com / t/hcsec-2023-28-vault-s-transit-secrets-engine-allowed-nonce-specified-without-convergent-encryption/58249
Vendor Advisory