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SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/vault (GHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411550

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.12.0 and newer are vulnerable to a denial of service through memory
 exhaustion of the host when handling large unauthenticated and authenticated HTTP requests from a client.
 Vault will attempt to map the request to memory, resulting in the exhaustion of available memory on the
 host, which may cause Vault to crash. Fixed in Vault 1.15.4, 1.14.8, 1.13.12. (CVE-2023-6337)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 411550

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-6337

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/8/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-6337

cwe: CWE-770