Vault Enterprise Namespace Creation May Lead to Denial of Service

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-3774",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Vault Enterprise Namespace Creation May Lead to Denial of Service",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-3774",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
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        "BIT-vault-2023-3774",
        "CVE-2023-3774"
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
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              "repo": "https://github.com/hashicorp/vault",
              "type": "GIT",
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                      },
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                  {
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            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-3774.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:41.995920772Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-23-vault-enterprise-namespace-creation-may-lead-to-denial-of-service/56617",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/3xxx/CVE-2023-3774.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3774"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-248"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "HashiCorp",
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
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                    "introduced": "1.14.0"
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                    "introduced": "1.13.4"
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                    "introduced": "1.12.8"
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                "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                "strategy": "StandaloneSingleVersion"
              }
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      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2023-3774",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 509705,
  "published_at": "2023-07-28T00:45:04.379+00:00"
}