CVE-2024-8185 — Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Processing Raft Join Requests

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
HashiCorp / Vault	affected 1.2.0 before 1.18.1
HashiCorp / Vault Enterprise	affected 1.2.0 before 1.18.1

CWE

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

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.