CVE-2024-8185 Information

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.

Reference

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-26-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-processing-raft-cluster-join-requests/71047