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CVE-2024-8185

Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Processing Raft Join Requests

Published: Oct 31, 2024Updated: Nov 13, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-636
7.5HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.5%
Top 62.2%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

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.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-636

Affected Products

HashiCorp
commercial·USaka hashicorp inc.
VaultSaaSSaaS Service
Cloud & SaaS
Vault EnterpriseSaaSSaaS Service
Cloud & SaaS
Go
package-ecosystem
github.com/hashicorp/vault
OSS Libraries
github.com/openbao/openbao
OSS Libraries
openbao
oss-project
openbaoOn-prem
Security Products / identity-access-mgmt
ООО «Ред Софт»
commercial·RUaka red soft
РЕД ОСOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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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
discuss.hashicorp.com
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8185
nvd.nist.gov
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/commit/195dfca433028887973f5bd82d173d91fe9dab4a
github.com
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