{"schema_version":"1.9.0","id":"BIT-openbao-2024-8185","published":"2026-07-27T05:48:44.517Z","modified":"2026-09-08T08:48:16.662543939Z","aliases":["BIT-vault-2024-8185","CVE-2024-8185","GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v","GO-2024-3246"],"summary":"Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Processing Raft Join Requests","details":"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.\n\nThis 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.","affected":[{"package":{"name":"openbao","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/openbao"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.0.3"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/openbao/BIT-openbao-2024-8185.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-26-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-processing-raft-cluster-join-requests/71047"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8185"}],"database_specific":{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:openbao:openbao:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*"],"severity":"High"}}