CVE-2023-4680 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2023-4680

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

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Vault, Vault Enterprise
Vulnerable Versions:
1.14.0, 1.13.0, 1.12.0, 1.6.0

Timeline

Official Publish: September 14th, 2023
Last Modified: September 26th, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-323

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.