GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7vHighCVSS 7.5
Hashicorp Vault vulnerable to denial of service through memory exhaustion
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 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.
🎯 Affected products2
- go/github.com/hashicorp/vault:>= 1.2.0, < 1.18.1
- go/github.com/openbao/openbao:< 2.0.3
🔗 References (5)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8185
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-26-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-processing-raft-cluster-join-requests/71047
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/commit/195dfca433028887973f5bd82d173d91fe9dab4a
- https://openbao.org/docs/release-notes/2-0-0/#203
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v