CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-8185

7.5 HIGH Published 2024-10-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-10-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-636

Description

Vault Community and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) clusters using Vault’s Integrated Storage backend are vulnerable to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack through memory exhaustion through a Raft cluster join API endpoint . An attacker may send a large volume of requests to the endpoint which may cause Vault to consume excessive system memory resources, potentially leading to a crash of the underlying system and the Vault process itself. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-8185, is fixed in Vault Community 1.18.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.18.1, 1.17.8, and 1.16.12.

Affected configurations

• hashicorp vault (>= 1.2.0 < 1.16.12) • hashicorp vault (>= 1.2.0 < 1.18.1) • hashicorp vault (>= 1.17.0 < 1.17.8) • hashicorp vault 1.18.0 • openbao openbao (< 2.0.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-636 Not Failing Securely weakness

References