{"cve":"CVE-2024-8185","nvd":{"published":"2024-10-31T16:15:06.267","modified":"2026-06-17T08:22:04.640","status":"Analyzed","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.\n\nThis 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_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":7.5},"cwes":["CWE-636"],"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"],"products":["hashicorp:vault","openbao:openbao"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:56:33.105311382+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-8185","score":0.00476,"percentile":0.41151,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v","summary":"Hashicorp Vault vulnerable to denial of service through memory exhaustion","modified":"2026-09-10T03:50:19.635782535Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/hashicorp/vault","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault","ranges":[">=1.2.0 <1.18.1"],"fixed":["1.18.1"]},{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/openbao/openbao","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/openbao/openbao","ranges":["<2.0.3"],"fixed":["2.0.3"]}]},{"id":"GO-2024-3246","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GO-2024-3246","summary":"Hashicorp Vault vulnerable to denial of service through memory exhaustion in github.com/hashicorp/vault","modified":"2026-07-27T09:11:29.062282826Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/hashicorp/vault","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault","ranges":[">=1.2.0 <1.18.1"],"fixed":["1.18.1"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}