CVE-2024-8185
Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Processing Raft Join Requests
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.
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CVSS Vector Breakdown
Exploitability
AV:NAttack VectorNetwork
AC:LAttack ComplexityLow
PR:NPrivileges RequiredNone
UI:NUser InteractionNone
Scope
S:UScopeUnchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentialityNone
I:NIntegrityNone
A:HAvailabilityHigh
Weaknesses
Affected Products
HashiCorp
commercial·USaka hashicorp inc.
openbao
oss-project
ООО «Ред Софт»
commercial·RUaka red soft
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Exploitability
Official Patch Available
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
discuss.hashicorp.com
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8185
nvd.nist.gov
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/commit/195dfca433028887973f5bd82d173d91fe9dab4a
github.com
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