CVE-2024-8185

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.

How to fix CVE-2024-8185

To remediate CVE-2024-8185, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 1.18.1 or later
• —upgrade to 1.18.1 or later
• —upgrade to 1.18.1 or later
• —upgrade to 2.0.3 or later

Is CVE-2024-8185 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (4)

• >= 1.2.0, < 1.18.1
• >= 1.2.0, < 1.18.1
• >= 1.2.0, < 1.18.1
• from 0, < 2.0.3

CVSS scores

References (6)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8185
• PATCHgithub.com/hashicorp/vault
• WEBdiscuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-26-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-processing-raft-cluster-join-requests/71047