CVE-2023-4680

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.8
Exploit probability—
ProductHashicorp Vault
PublishedSep 15, 2023
First seenSep 15, 2023
Weakness typeCWE-323CWE-323

How to fix

Update
  • hashicorp vault1.12.11, 1.13.7, 1.14.3 or later
  • github.com/hashicorp/vault1.12.11, 1.13.7, 1.14.3 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
hashicorp vault1.6.0 ≤ v < 1.12.11, 1.13.0 ≤ v < 1.13.7, 1.14.0 ≤ v < 1.14.31.12.11, 1.13.7, 1.14.3
github.com/hashicorp/vaultGo1.6.0 ≤ v < 1.12.11, 1.13.0 ≤ v < 1.13.7, 1.14.0 ≤ v < 1.14.31.12.11, 1.13.7, 1.14.3

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