Denial Of Service (DoS)

2023-11-1306:51:11

Veracode Vulnerability Database

sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com

memory leak

malicious requests

vulnerability

github

vault

denial-of-service

software

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

AI Score

6.9

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

17.0%

JSON

github.com/hashicorp/vault is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). A memory leak vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against a vulnerable Vault instance by sending a large number of malicious client requests. The malicious requests would cause Vault to consume all of the available memory and cause Vault to crash.