CVE-2023-4680Vault's Transit Secrets Engine Allowed Nonce Specified without Convergent Encryption
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 0.44%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 61% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By HashiCorp
- 14 days later
· 14 days later
Published
- 13 months later
· 13 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
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 61% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
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
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)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-2597 (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)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-4680)Record last updated .