CVE-2023-4680: HashiCorp Vault Improper Input Validation vulnerability

September 15, 2023

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.

References

discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-28-vault-s-transit-secrets-engine-allowed-nonce-specified-without-convergent-encryption/58249
github.com/advisories/GHSA-v84f-6r39-cpfc
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4680

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