CVE-2023-4680
September 14, 2023
HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise transit secrets engine allowed authorized users to specify arbitrary nonces, even with convergent encryption disabled. The encrypt endpoint, in combination with an offline attack, could be used to decrypt arbitrary ciphertext and potentially derive the authentication subkey when using transit secrets engine without convergent encryption. Introduced in 1.6.0 and fixed in 1.14.3, 1.13.7, and 1.12.11.
Affected Packages
github.com/hashicorp/vault (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v1.14.0 <v1.14.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.14.3github.com/hashicorp/vault (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v1.6.0 <v1.12.11Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.12.11github.com/hashicorp/vault (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v1.13.0 <v1.13.7Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.13.7Related Resources (4)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
7.6
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
6.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
EPSS
Base Score:
1.52
