{"id":"BIT-vault-2023-6337","summary":"Vault May be Vulnerable to a Denial of Service Through Memory Exhaustion When Handling Large HTTP Requests","details":"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.\n\nFixed in Vault 1.15.4, 1.14.8, 1.13.12.","aliases":["CVE-2023-6337","GHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5","GO-2023-2399"],"modified":"2026-09-08T08:48:21.560131098Z","published":"2024-03-06T11:08:02.584Z","database_specific":{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"severity":"High"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-34-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-handling-large-http-requests/60741"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240112-0006/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6337"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"vault","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/vault"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"1.13.0"},{"fixed":"1.13.12"},{"introduced":"1.14.0"},{"fixed":"1.14.8"},{"introduced":"1.15.0"},{"fixed":"1.15.4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/vault/BIT-vault-2023-6337.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}