CVE-2023-6337
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-12-08 21:12
Modified
2024-08-02 08:28
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Vault May be Vulnerable to a Denial of Service Through Memory Exhaustion When Handling Large HTTP Requests
References
security@hashicorp.comhttps://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-34-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-handling-large-http-requests/60741Vendor Advisory
security@hashicorp.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240112-0006/
Impacted products
HashiCorpVault
HashiCorpVault Enterprise
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