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GO-2023-2399

Denial of service via memory exhaustion in github.com/hashicorp/vault

Quick fix

GO-2023-2399 — github.com/hashicorp/vault: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

go get github.com/hashicorp/vault@v1.13.12

Details

Unauthenticated and authenticated HTTP requests from a client will be attempted to be mapped to memory. Large requests may result in the exhaustion of available memory on the host, which may cause crashes and denial of service.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

Go/github.com/hashicorp/vault

Introduced in: 1.12.0Fixed in: 1.13.12

Fixgo get github.com/hashicorp/vault@v1.13.12

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6337[ADVISORY]
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-34-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-handling-large-http-requests/60741[WEB]
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/24354[FIX]