CVE-2024-8185 - HashiCorp Vault Raft Cluster Join API Denial of Service

CVE ID : CVE-2024-8185
Published : Oct. 31, 2024, 4:15 p.m. | 24 minutes ago
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.
Severity: 7.5 | HIGH
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