CVE-2023-6337 affects HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 1.12.0 and newer, allowing a denial of service through memory exhaustion. The vulnerability arises when Vault attempts to map large unauthenticated or authenticated HTTP requests to memory, leading to host memory exhaustion and potential Vault crashes. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and no user interaction, resulting in high availability impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion regarding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.12.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.12.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.13.0, < 1.13.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.13.0, < 1.13.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.14.0, < 1.14.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVE-2023-6337
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