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CVE-2024-8185: Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Processing Raft Join Requests
- 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: 2024-10-31 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-636
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.
Affected products
- HashiCorp Vault: from 1.2.0 before 1.16.12; from 1.2.0 before 1.18.1; from 1.17.0 before 1.17.8; 1.18.0 — fixed in 1.16.12, 1.17.8, 1.18.1
- openbao: before 2.0.3 — fixed in 2.0.3
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: HashiCorp Vault 1.16.12, 1.17.8, 1.18.1; openbao 2.0.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
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