Boundary Controller Incorrectly Handles HTTP Requests On Initialization Which May Lead to a Denial of Service

published 2024-12-12 22 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-3526 , GHSA-xx83-cxmq-x89m , GO-2024-3335

cvss: 5.9; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits: 0; none known

Boundary Community Edition and Boundary Enterprise (“Boundary”) incorrectly handle HTTP requests during the initialization of the Boundary controller, which may cause the Boundary server to terminate prematurely. Boundary is only vulnerable to this flaw during the initialization of the Boundary controller, which on average is measured in milliseconds during the Boundary startup process.

This vulnerability, CVE-2024-12289, is fixed in Boundary Community Edition and Boundary Enterprise 0.16.4, 0.17.3, 0.18.2.

Patch / fix

fixed in 3 distros 1

go github.com/hashicorp/boundary 0.18.2
HashiCorp Boundary 0.16.4, 0.17.3, 0.18.2
HashiCorp Boundary Enterprise 0.16.4, 0.17.3, 0.18.2

govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20241218T202206-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14603-1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 22 mo ago (2024-12-13)

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub	3.1	5.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
go	github.com/hashicorp/boundary	<0.18.2	0.18.2

Affected products

HashiCorp Boundary
HashiCorp Boundary Enterprise

Classification

Weakness

CWE-460 Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception
CWE-665 Improper Initialization

References

discuss.hashicorp.com /t/hcsec-2024-28-boundary-controller-incorrectly-handles-http-requests-on-initialization-which-may-lead-to-a-d
web, vendor-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12289
advisory
github.com /hashicorp/boundary
package
github.com /advisories/GHSA-xx83-cxmq-x89m
advisory

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.

Summary