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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2024-8185 json

Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Processing Raft Join Requests

published 2024-10-31 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also BIT-openbao-2024-8185 , BIT-vault-2024-8185 , EUVD-2024-3041 , GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v , GO-2024-3246

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.18.1
  • go github.com/openbao/openbao 2.0.3
  • bitnami openbao 2.0.3
  • bitnami vault 1.18.1
  • HashiCorp Vault 1.16.12, 1.17.8, 1.18.1
  • HashiCorp Vault Enterprise 1.16.12, 1.17.8, 1.18.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP6, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.6 +1 more 0.0.20241104T154416-150000.1.12.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:3950-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb Package Hub 12 0.0.20241104T154416-5.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20241101T215616-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:0350-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14452-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-8185 updated cvss 7.5

hashicorp/vault: Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Processing Raft Join Requests

  • Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/cephcsi-rhel8, ocs4/mcg-rhel8-operator, ocs4/ocs-rhel8-operator, ocs4/ocs-must-gather-rhel8, ocs4/rook-ceph-rhel8-operator
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9, odf4/mcg-cli-rhel9, odf4/odf-cli-rhel9, odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator, odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator, odf4/odf-rhel8-operator, +4 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/hashicorp/vault
>=1.2.0, <1.18.1
1.18.1
go github.com/openbao/openbao
<2.0.3
2.0.3
bitnami openbao
<2.0.3
2.0.3
bitnami vault
>=1.2.0, <1.18.1
1.18.1

Affected products

  • HashiCorp Vault
  • HashiCorp Vault Enterprise

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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