CVE-2023-4680

Summary

CVECVE-2023-4680
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-09-15 00:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-20 14:55:00 UTC
DescriptionHashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise transit secrets engine allowed authorized users to specify arbitrary nonces, even with convergent encryption disabled. The encrypt endpoint, in combination with an offline attack, could be used to decrypt arbitrary ciphertext and potentially derive the authentication subkey when using transit secrets engine without convergent encryption. Introduced in 1.6.0 and fixed in 1.14.3, 1.13.7, and 1.12.11.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Hashicorp Vault All All All All
Application Hashicorp Vault All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
HCSEC-2023-28 - Vault’s Transit Secrets Engine Allowed Nonce Specified without Convergent Encryption - Security - HashiCorp Discuss MISC discuss.hashicorp.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 995295 GO (Go) Security Update for github.com/hashicorp/vault (GHSA-v84f-6r39-cpfc)
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