CVE-2023-5954
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
HashiCorp Vault Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in github.com/hashicorp/vault
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | <1.13.10 | 1.13.10 |
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=1.14.0,<1.14.6 | 1.14.6 |
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=1.15.0,<1.15.2 | 1.15.2 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5954
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-33-vault-requests-triggering-policy-checks-may-lead-to-unbounded-memory-consumption/59926
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231227-0001
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4qhc-v8r6-8vwm
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.