CVE-2024-6468: Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Setting a Proxy Protocol Behavior

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-07-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-703

Description

Vault and Vault Enterprise did not properly handle requests originating from unauthorized IP addresses when the TCP listener option, proxy_protocol_behavior, was set to deny_unauthorized. When receiving a request from a source IP address that was not listed in proxy_protocol_authorized_addrs, the Vault API server would shut down and no longer respond to any HTTP requests, potentially resulting in denial of service. While this bug also affected versions of Vault up to 1.17.1 and 1.16.5, a separate regression in those release series did not allow Vault operators to configure the deny_unauthorized option, thus not allowing the conditions for the denial of service to occur. Fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.17.2, 1.16.6, and 1.15.12.

Affected products

HashiCorp Vault: from 1.10.0 before 1.15.12; from 1.16.0 before 1.16.6; from 1.17.0 before 1.17.2 — fixed in 1.15.12, 1.16.6, 1.17.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: HashiCorp Vault 1.15.12, 1.16.6, 1.17.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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