CVE-2024-8185 Vulnerability Details

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CVE-2024-8185 Metadata Quick Info

CVE Published: 31/10/2024 | CVE Updated: 31/10/2024 | CVE Year: 2024
Source: HashiCorp | Vendor: HashiCorp | Product: Vault
Status : PUBLISHED

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CVE-2024-8185 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.

Metrics

CVSS Version: 3.1 | Base Score: 7.5 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-ID: CWE-636
CWE Name: CWE-636: Not Failing Securely (Failing Open)
Source: HashiCorp

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

CAPEC-ID: CAPEC-469
CAPEC Description: CAPEC-469: HTTP DoS


Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database).