Back
CVE-2023-4680
Vault's Transit Secrets Engine Allowed Nonce Specified without Convergent Encryption
Medium6.8EPSS 0.44%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- HashiCorp
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| HashiCorpCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.44% · top 62% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
Loading the EPSS history…
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 1.14.0 – < 1.14.3
- affected 1.13.0 – < 1.13.7
- affected 1.12.0 – < 1.12.11
- affected 1.6.0 – < 1.12.0
- affected 1.14.0 – < 1.14.3
- affected 1.13.0 – < 1.13.7
- affected 1.12.0 – < 1.12.11
- affected 1.6.0 – < 1.12.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/hashicorp/vaultGHSA-v84f-6r39-cpfc (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-v84f-6r39-cpfc (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-4680)Record last updated .