CVE-2024-8185
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.
Published:Oct 31, 2024
Last Modified:Nov 13, 2025
EPS:Oct 31, 2024
EPSS Score:0.00435
CVSS Score:7.5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Hashicorp
Product
Vault
Hashicorp
Vault
Vendor
Openbao
Product
Openbao
Openbao
Openbao
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
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Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
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User Interaction
None
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Scope
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Confidentiality
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Integrity
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Availability
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