CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2024-8185
High (7.5). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.18.1.
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
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-636
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- hashicorp:vault
- openbao:openbao
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v | Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=1.2.0 <1.18.1 | 1.18.1 |
| GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v | Go | github.com/openbao/openbao | <2.0.3 | 2.0.3 |
| GO-2024-3246 | Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=1.2.0 <1.18.1 | 1.18.1 |