hashicorp/vault · Security
Hashicorp Vault vulnerable to denial of service through memory exhaustion
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v
- CVE ID
- CVE-2024-8185
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v4
- 8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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.
CWEs
- CWE-636 · Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open')
References
- 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 ↗