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CVE-2024-8185

Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Processing Raft Join Requests

7.5 HighFix available

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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

0.48%Up 0.4 points since Nov 1, 2024
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 7.5

Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Processing Raft Join Requests

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.

Record
CVE-2024-8185
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-636
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2024-3041 7.5

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.

Record
EUVD-2024-3041
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v 8.7

Hashicorp Vault vulnerable to denial of service through memory exhaustion

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.

Record
GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v
CVSS 4.0
8.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-636
Updated
2026-11-02
NVD 7.5

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.

Record
CVE-2024-8185
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-636
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 7.5

Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Processing Raft Join Requests

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.

Record
CVE-2024-8185
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-636
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v 8.7

Hashicorp Vault vulnerable to denial of service through memory exhaustion

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.

Record
GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v
CVSS 4.0
8.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-636
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVBIT-openbao-2024-8185 No score

Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Processing Raft Join Requests

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.

Record
BIT-openbao-2024-8185
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVBIT-vault-2024-8185 No score

Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Processing Raft Join Requests

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.

Record
BIT-vault-2024-8185
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVGO-2024-3246 No score

Hashicorp Vault vulnerable to denial of service through memory exhaustion in github.com/hashicorp/vault

Hashicorp Vault vulnerable to denial of service through memory exhaustion in github.com/hashicorp/vault

Record
GO-2024-3246
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:0350-1 No score

Security update for govulncheck-vulndb

This update for govulncheck-vulndb fixes the following issues:

  • Update to version 0.0.20241104T154416 2024-11-04T15:44:16Z. Refs jsc#PED-11136 Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:

    • GO-2024-3233 CVE-2024-46872 GHSA-762g-9p7f-mrww
    • GO-2024-3234 CVE-2024-47401 GHSA-762v-rq7q-ff97
    • GO-2024-3235 CVE-2024-50052 GHSA-g376-m3h3-mj4r
    • GO-2024-3237 CVE-2024-0133 GHSA-f748-7hpg-88ch
    • GO-2024-3239 CVE-2024-0132 GHSA-mjjw-553x-87pq
    • GO-2024-3240 CVE-2024-10452 GHSA-66c4-2g2v-54qw
    • GO-2024-3241 CVE-2024-10006 GHSA-5c4w-8hhh-3c3h
    • GO-2024-3242 CVE-2024-10086 GHSA-99wr-c2px-grmh
    • GO-2024-3243 CVE-2024-10005 GHSA-chgm-7r52-whjj

  • Update to version 0.0.20241101T215616 2024-11-01T21:56:16Z. Refs jsc#PED-11136 Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:

    • GO-2024-3244 CVE-2024-50354 GHSA-cph5-3pgr-c82g
    • GO-2024-3245 CVE-2024-39720
    • GO-2024-3246 CVE-2024-8185 GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v

  • Update to version 0.0.20241030T212825 2024-10-30T21:28:25Z. Refs jsc#PED-11136 Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:

    • GO-2024-3230 CVE-2024-48921 GHSA-qjvc-p88j-j9rm
    • GO-2024-3232 CVE-2024-10241 GHSA-6mvp-gh77-7vwh

  • Update to version 0.0.20241030T160108 2024-10-30T16:01:08Z. Refs jsc#PED-11136 Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:

    • GO-2024-3226 CVE-2024-47827 GHSA-ghjw-32xw-ffwr
    • GO-2024-3227 CVE-2024-10214 GHSA-hm57-h27x-599c
    • GO-2024-3228 GHSA-wcx9-ccpj-hx3c

  • Packaging improvments:

    • Backfill CVE aliases in recent changelog entries

  • Update to version 0.0.20241028T152002 2024-10-28T15:20:02Z. Refs jsc#PED-11136 Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:

    • GO-2024-3207 GHSA-p5wf-cmr4-xrwr
    • GO-2024-3208 CVE-2024-47825 GHSA-3wwx-63fv-pfq6
    • GO-2024-3210 CVE-2024-8901
    • GO-2024-3211 CVE-2024-50312
    • GO-2024-3212 GHSA-rjfv-pjvx-mjgv
    • GO-2024-3213 CVE-2024-49380
    • GO-2024-3214 CVE-2024-49381
    • GO-2024-3215 CVE-2024-9264 GHSA-q99m-qcv4-fpm7
    • GO-2024-3216 CVE-2024-49753 GHSA-6cf5-w9h3-4rqv
    • GO-2024-3217 CVE-2024-49757 GHSA-3rmw-76m6-4gjc
    • GO-2024-3219 GHSA-7h65-4p22-39j6
    • GO-2024-3220 CVE-2023-32197 GHSA-7h8m-pvw3-5gh4
    • GO-2024-3221 CVE-2024-22036 GHSA-h99m-6755-rgwc
    • GO-2024-3222 GHSA-x7xj-jvwp-97rv
    • GO-2024-3223 CVE-2022-45157 GHSA-xj7w-r753-vj8v
    • GO-2024-3224 CVE-2024-39223 GHSA-8wxx-35qc-vp6r

  • Update to version 0.0.20241017T153730 date 2024-10-17T15:37:30Z. Refs jsc#PED-11136 Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:

    • GO-2024-3189 CVE-2024-38365 GHSA-27vh-h6mc-q6g8
    • GO-2024-3203 CVE-2024-9486
    • GO-2024-3204 CVE-2024-9594

    Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:

    • GO-2024-3189 CVE-2024-38365 GHSA-27vh-h6mc-q6g8
    • GO-2024-3196 CVE-2024-47877 GHSA-8rm2-93mq-jqhc
    • GO-2024-3199 GHSA-vv6c-69r6-chg9
    • GO-2024-3200 CVE-2024-48909 GHSA-3c32-4hq9-6wgj
    • GO-2024-3201 CVE-2023-22644 Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:
    • GO-2024-3166 CVE-2024-47534 GHSA-4f8r-qqr9-fq8j
    • GO-2024-3171 CVE-2024-9341 GHSA-mc76-5925-c5p6 Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:
    • GO-2024-3161 CVE-2024-22030 GHSA-h4h5-9833-v2p4
    • GO-2024-3162 CVE-2024-7594 GHSA-jg74-mwgw-v6x3
    • GO-2024-3163 CVE-2024-47182
    • GO-2024-3164 CVE-2024-47003 GHSA-59hf-mpf8-pqjh
    • GO-2024-3166 CVE-2024-47534 GHSA-4f8r-qqr9-fq8j
    • GO-2024-3167 CVE-2024-9355 GHSA-3h3x-2hwv-hr52
    • GO-2024-3168 CVE-2024-8975 GHSA-chqx-36rm-rf8h
    • GO-2024-3169 CVE-2024-9407 GHSA-fhqq-8f65-5xfc
    • GO-2024-3170 CVE-2024-8996 GHSA-m5gv-m5f9-wgv4
    • GO-2024-3172 CVE-2024-33662 GHSA-9mjw-79r6-c9m8
    • GO-2024-3173 CVE-2024-7558 GHSA-mh98-763h-m9v4
    • GO-2024-3174 CVE-2024-8037 GHSA-8v4w-f4r9-7h6x
    • GO-2024-3175 CVE-2024-8038 GHSA-xwgj-vpm9-q2rq
    • GO-2024-3179 CVE-2024-47616 GHSA-r7rh-jww5-5fjr
    • GO-2024-3181 CVE-2024-9313 GHSA-x5q3-c8rm-w787
    • GO-2024-3182 GHSA-wpr2-j6gr-pjw9 *…
Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:0350-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:14452-1 No score

govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20241101T215616-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20241101T215616-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:14452-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2024:3950-1 No score

Security update for govulncheck-vulndb

This update for govulncheck-vulndb fixes the following issues:

  • Update to version 0.0.20241104T154416 2024-11-04T15:44:16Z. Refs jsc#PED-11136 Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:

    • GO-2024-3233 CVE-2024-46872 GHSA-762g-9p7f-mrww
    • GO-2024-3234 CVE-2024-47401 GHSA-762v-rq7q-ff97
    • GO-2024-3235 CVE-2024-50052 GHSA-g376-m3h3-mj4r
    • GO-2024-3237 CVE-2024-0133 GHSA-f748-7hpg-88ch
    • GO-2024-3239 CVE-2024-0132 GHSA-mjjw-553x-87pq
    • GO-2024-3240 CVE-2024-10452 GHSA-66c4-2g2v-54qw
    • GO-2024-3241 CVE-2024-10006 GHSA-5c4w-8hhh-3c3h
    • GO-2024-3242 CVE-2024-10086 GHSA-99wr-c2px-grmh
    • GO-2024-3243 CVE-2024-10005 GHSA-chgm-7r52-whjj

  • Update to version 0.0.20241101T215616 2024-11-01T21:56:16Z. Refs jsc#PED-11136 Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:

    • GO-2024-3244 CVE-2024-50354 GHSA-cph5-3pgr-c82g
    • GO-2024-3245 CVE-2024-39720
    • GO-2024-3246 CVE-2024-8185 GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v
Record
SUSE-SU-2024:3950-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
github.com/hashicorp/vault
Go
 1.2.0 up to 1.18.1
1.18.1
github.com/openbao/openbao
Go
 before 2.0.3
2.0.3
openbao
Bitnami
 before 2.0.3
2.0.3
vault
Bitnami
 1.2.0 up to 1.18.1
1.18.1
govulncheck-vulndb
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP5
 before 0.0.20241104T154416-150000.1.12.1
0.0.20241104T154416-150000.1.12.1
govulncheck-vulndb
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6
 before 0.0.20241104T154416-150000.1.12.1
0.0.20241104T154416-150000.1.12.1
govulncheck-vulndb
openSUSE:Leap 15.5
 before 0.0.20241104T154416-150000.1.12.1
0.0.20241104T154416-150000.1.12.1
govulncheck-vulndb
openSUSE:Leap 15.6
 before 0.0.20241104T154416-150000.1.12.1
0.0.20241104T154416-150000.1.12.1
govulncheck-vulndb
SUSE:Package Hub 12
 before 0.0.20241104T154416-5.1
0.0.20241104T154416-5.1
govulncheck-vulndb
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
 before 0.0.20241101T215616-1.1
0.0.20241101T215616-1.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliases, publishedEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2024-8185 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Hashicorp Vault, published October 31, 2024. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.48%, the 41st percentile. Fixed in github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.18.1.

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