CVE-2023-4680

Vault's Transit Secrets Engine Allowed Nonce Specified without Convergent Encryption

Published Sep 14, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 6.8 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-2597 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-v84f-6r39-cpfc HashiCorp Vault Improper Input Validation vulnerability
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-323
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Hashicorp vault Enterprise
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Hashicorp vault Enterprise
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
HashiCorp
Published
Updated
Sep 26, 2024, 5:38 PM
Reserved
Aug 31, 2023, 3:50 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 15, 2023, 12:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 6:38 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Nov 6, 2023, 12:00 AM