CVE-2023-4680: Hashicorp Vault

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Hashicorp Vault: from 1.6.0, before 1.12.11 (fixed in 1.12.11); from 1.13.0, before 1.13.7 (fixed in 1.13.7); from 1.14.0, before 1.14.3 (fixed in 1.14.3)

Published 2023-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.