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.

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-8185 vulnerability.

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2024-8185.

URL	Resource
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-26-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-processing-raft-cluster-join-requests/71047
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8185
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8185