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CVE-2024-8185

HIGH
Published 2024-10-31T15:14:55.145Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
7.5
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.001
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.1% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.326
Higher than 32.6% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
Not Available
Attack Complexity
Not Available
Privileges Required
Not Available
User Interaction
Not Available
Scope
Not Available

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
Not Available
Integrity
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Availability
Not Available

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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

HashiCorp

Vault

Affected Versions:

1.2.0
HashiCorp

Vault Enterprise

Affected Versions:

1.2.0
hashicorp

vault

Affected Versions:

1.2.0 1.17.8 1.16.12
hashicorp

vault

Affected Versions:

1.2.0

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH

Hashicorp Vault vulnerable to denial of service through memory exhaustion

GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v

Advisory Details

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 Packages

Go github.com/hashicorp/vault
ECOSYSTEM: ≥1.2.0 <1.18.1

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8185
WEB https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/commit/195dfca433028887973f5bd82d173d91fe9dab4a
WEB https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-26-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-processing-raft-cluster-join-requests/71047
PACKAGE https://github.com/hashicorp/vault

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: October 31, 2024, Modified: October 31, 2024

References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-26-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-processing-raft-cluster-join-requests/71047
Published: 2024-10-31T15:14:55.145Z
Last Modified: 2024-10-31T17:11:35.647Z
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