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GHSA-G233-2P4R-3Q7V

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-10-31 18:31 – Updated: 2025-08-04 20:59

Summary

Hashicorp Vault vulnerable to denial of service through memory exhaustion

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.

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

8.7 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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  "id": "GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v",
  "modified": "2025-08-04T20:59:51Z",
  "published": "2024-10-31T18:31:19Z",
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CVE-2024-8185 (GCVE-0-2024-8185)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-31 15:14 – Updated: 2024-10-31 17:11

Title

Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Processing Raft Join Requests

Summary

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.

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-10-31 16:54 UTC

CWE

CWE-636 - Not Failing Securely (Failing Open)

Assigner

HashiCorp mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-26-vau…

Impacted products

4 products

Vendor	Product	Version
HashiCorp	Vault	Affected: 1.2.0 , < 1.18.1 (semver)
HashiCorp	Vault Enterprise	Affected: 1.2.0 , < 1.18.1 (semver)
hashicorp	vault	Affected: 1.2.0 , < 1.18.1 (custom) Unaffected: 1.17.8 Unaffected: 1.16.12 cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:::::enterprise:::*
hashicorp	vault	Affected: 1.2.0 , < 1.18.1 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:::::community:::*

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