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CVE-2024-8185

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
31/10/2024
Last modified:
13/11/2025

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.<br /> <br /> 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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
7.50
Severity 3.x
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* 1.2.0 (including) 1.16.12 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* 1.2.0 (including) 1.18.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* 1.17.0 (including) 1.17.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:1.18.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:openbao:openbao:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.0.3 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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