CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-8185
7.5 HIGH
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- 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