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CVE-2023-4680

MEDIUM
Published 2023-09-14T23:06:24.546Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
6.8
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.015
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 1.5% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.804
Higher than 80.4% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
Not Available
Attack Complexity
Not Available
Privileges Required
Not Available
User Interaction
Not Available
Scope
Not Available

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
Not Available
Integrity
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Availability
Not Available

Description

HashiCorp 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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

HashiCorp

Vault

Affected Versions:

1.14.0 1.13.0 1.12.0 1.6.0
HashiCorp

Vault Enterprise

Affected Versions:

1.14.0 1.13.0 1.12.0 1.6.0
hashicorp

vault

Affected Versions:

1.14.0 1.13.0 1.12.0 1.6.0
hashicorp

vault_enterprise

Affected Versions:

1.14.0 1.13.0 1.12.0 1.6.0

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

✓ GitHub Reviewed MODERATE

HashiCorp Vault Improper Input Validation vulnerability

GHSA-v84f-6r39-cpfc

Advisory Details

HashiCorp 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.

Affected Packages

Go github.com/hashicorp/vault
ECOSYSTEM: ≥1.6.0 <1.12.11
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault
ECOSYSTEM: ≥1.13.0 <1.13.7
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault
ECOSYSTEM: ≥1.14.0 <1.14.3

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

5.0

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4680
WEB https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-28-vault-s-transit-secrets-engine-allowed-nonce-specified-without-convergent-encryption/58249
PACKAGE https://github.com/hashicorp/vault

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: September 15, 2023, Modified: September 15, 2023

References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-28-vault-s-transit-secrets-engine-allowed-nonce-specified-without-convergent-encryption/58249
Published: 2023-09-14T23:06:24.546Z
Last Modified: 2024-09-26T17:38:48.629Z
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