Medium
Vault Requests Triggering Policy Checks May Lead To Unbounded Memory Consumption
Type: advisorySources: OSV
HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise inbound client requests triggering a policy check can lead to an unbounded consumption of memory. A large number of these requests may lead to denial-of-service. Fixed in Vault 1.15.2, 1.14.6, and 1.13.10.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-5954
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 23:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Vault Requests Triggering Policy Checks May Lead To Unbounded Memory Consumption
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 9 Nov 2023, 20:13 UTC
HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise inbound client requests triggering a policy check can lead to an unbounded consumption of memory. A large number of these requests may lead to denial-of-service. Fixed in Vault 1.15.2, 1.14.6, and 1.13.10.
osv:CVE-2023-5954
Complete source record
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