Medium severity · published Jul 28, 2023
CVE-2023-3774
An unhandled error in Vault Enterprise's namespace creation may cause the Vault process to crash, potentially resulting in denial of service
4.9
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An unhandled error in Vault Enterprise's namespace creation may cause the Vault process to crash, potentially resulting in denial of service. Fixed in 1.14.1, 1.13.5, and 1.12.9.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 53% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
VA
Vault · Hashicorp
1.12.8; 1.13.4; 1.14.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3774
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3774
Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-23-vault-enterprise-namespace-creation-may-lead-to-denial-of-service/56617
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