CVE-2024-8185

HIGH EPSS 37.8%
Published Oct 31, 20241y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
7.5 CVSS 3.1
High
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Published Oct 31, 2024 1y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

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.

CVSS Details

Base Score
7.5
Exploitability
3.9
Impact
3.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
37.8% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
No Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-636

Affected Products 5

VendorProductVersionRange
hashicorpvault*≥1.2.0  –  <1.16.12
hashicorpvault*≥1.2.0  –  <1.18.1
hashicorpvault*≥1.17.0  –  <1.17.8
hashicorpvault1.18.0any
openbaoopenbao* <2.0.3

References 1

  • discuss.hashicorp.com https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-26-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-processing-raft-cluster-join-requests/71047
    Vendor Advisory

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.