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

Affected versions: 1.6.0 (fixed in 1.12.11)

Go github.com/hashicorp/vault

Affected versions: 1.13.0 (fixed in 1.13.7)

Go github.com/hashicorp/vault

Affected versions: 1.14.0 (fixed in 1.14.3)

Related CVEs

CVE-2023-4680

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-v84f-6r39-cpfc

Published

September 15, 2023 12:30 AM

Last Modified

September 15, 2023 7:03 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Primary Package

github.com/hashicorp/vault

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: July 6, 2025 6:30 AM

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