CVE-2023-3462 — HashiCorp's Vault and Vault Enterprise are vulnerable to user enumeration when u

HashiCorp's Vault and Vault Enterprise are vulnerable to user enumeration when using the LDAP auth method. An attacker may submit requests of existent and non-existent LDAP users and observe the response from Vault to check if the account is valid on the LDAP server. This vu

01What is this vulnerability?

HashiCorp's Vault and Vault Enterprise are vulnerable to user enumeration when using the LDAP auth method. An attacker may submit requests of existent and non-existent LDAP users and observe the response from Vault to check if the account is valid on the LDAP server. This vulnerability is fixed in Vault 1.14.1 and 1.13.5.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
HashiCorp	Vault	1.13.0, 1.14.0
HashiCorp	Vault Enterprise	1.13.0, 1.14.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-07-31T22:40:23.432Z
• Last modified: 2024-10-21T18:04:40.093Z

09References

• discuss.hashicorp.com — https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-24-vaults-ldap-auth-method-allows-for…