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CVE-2023-4680

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

MEDIUM
6.8
CVSS Score
Published: September 14, 2023 at 11:06 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:38 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorVault

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Severity
MEDIUM6.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Vault· Hashicorp
95%
1.12.0 ≤ v < 1.12.111.13.0 ≤ v < 1.13.71.14.0 ≤ v < 1.14.31.6.0 ≤ v < 1.12.01.6.0 ≤ v < 1.12.111.12.01.13.01.14.01.6.0
Affected range stops below 1.12.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.12.11, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.13.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.14.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (1)

Vendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-28-vault-s-transit-secrets-engine-allowed-nonce-specified-without-convergent-encryption/58249

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

6.8MEDIUMHashiCorp
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-323CWE-20

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