01 Record
CVE-2023-5954
Vault Requests Triggering Policy Checks May Lead To Unbounded Memory Consumption
MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: HashiCorp
CNA base score5.9 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
02 Description
Vault Requests Triggering Policy Checks May Lead To Unbounded Memory Consumption
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.71% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 53.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2023-11-09 20:13Z2 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2025-02-13 17:25Z1 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2023-11-03
- Assigning CNA
- HashiCorp
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 5.9)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401Missing Release of Memory after Effective LifetimeVariant
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 661fb36d8c889d0560844ae1cd0442b97d28701f5db66b7cbf45a225691db471
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
HashiCorpVault1.15.0, 1.15.1, 1.14.3, 1.14.4, 1.14.5, 1.13.7, 1.13.8, 1.13.9Windows, MacOS, Linux, x86, ARM, 64 bit, 32 bit
HashiCorpVault Enterprise1.15.0, 1.15.1, 1.14.3, 1.14.4, 1.14.5, 1.13.7, 1.13.8, 1.13.9Windows, MacOS, Linux, x86, ARM, 64 bit, 32 bit