{"schema_version":"1.9.0","id":"CVE-2024-8185","published":"2024-10-31T15:14:55.145Z","modified":"2026-08-12T03:51:43.485338522Z","aliases":["BIT-openbao-2024-8185","BIT-vault-2024-8185","GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v","GO-2024-3246"],"related":["CGA-m64p-2x95-p5jf","SUSE-SU-2024:3950-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:0350-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:14452-1"],"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":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/hashicorp/vault","events":[{"introduced":"33d368eac2d24501209d6874379c8cc4d4736e3d"},{"fixed":"f479e5c85462477c9334564bc8f69531cdb03b65"},{"introduced":"77f26ba561a4b6b1ccd5071b8624cefef7a72e84"},{"last_affected":"77f26ba561a4b6b1ccd5071b8624cefef7a72e84"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":["cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:1.18.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*"],"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.2.0"},{"fixed":"1.18.1"},{"introduced":"1.18.0"},{"last_affected":"1.18.0"}],"source":["CPE_RANGE","CPE_STRING"]}},{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/openbao/openbao","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"a2522eb71d1854f83c7e2e02fdbfc01ae74c3a78"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:openbao:openbao:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.0.3"}],"source":"CPE_RANGE"}}],"versions":["1.18.0","v1.18.0","v2.0.2","v2.0.1","v2.0.0","v2.0.0-beta20240618","sdk/v1.100.0-development20240408","api/v1.100.0-development20240408","api/auth/userpass/v1.1.0-development20240408","api/auth/ldap/v1.1.0-development20240408","api/auth/kubernetes/v1.1.0-development20240408","api/auth/gcp/v1.1.0-development20240408","api/auth/azure/v1.1.0-development20240408","api/auth/aws/v1.1.0-development20240408","api/auth/approle/v1.1.0-development20240408","v2.0.0-alpha20240329","before-plugin-removal","api/auth/userpass/v0.4.1","api/auth/gcp/v0.4.1","api/auth/azure/v0.4.1","api/auth/aws/v0.4.1","api/auth/approle/v0.4.1","sdk/v0.9.1","api/v1.9.2","api/v1.9.1","sdk/v0.9.0","api/auth/userpass/v0.4.0","api/auth/gcp/v0.4.0","api/auth/azure/v0.4.0","api/auth/aws/v0.4.0","api/auth/approle/v0.4.0","sdk/v0.8.0","api/v1.9.0","api/v1.8.3","sdk/v0.7.0","sdk/v0.6.2","sdk/v0.6.1","api/v1.8.2","api/v1.8.1","api/auth/userpass/v0.3.0","api/auth/gcp/v0.3.0","api/auth/azure/v0.3.0","api/auth/aws/v0.3.0","api/auth/approle/v0.3.0","api/v1.8.0","sdk/v0.6.0","api/auth/userpass/v0.2.0","api/auth/gcp/v0.2.0","api/auth/azure/v0.2.0","api/auth/aws/v0.2.0","api/auth/approle/v0.2.0","sdk/v0.5.3","api/v1.7.2","sdk/v0.5.1","api/v1.7.1","api/v1.7.0","api/v1.6.0","sdk/v0.5.0","api/v1.5.0","sdk/v0.4.1","api/v1.3.1","api/auth/approle/v0.1.1","api/auth/gcp/v0.1.0","api/auth/azure/v0.1.0","api/auth/userpass/v0.1.0","api/auth/aws/v0.1.0","api/auth/approle/v0.1.0","sdk/v0.3.0","api/v1.2.0","api/v1.1.1","sdk/v0.2.1","api/v1.0.4","sdk/v0.1.13","api/v1.0.3","sdk/v0.1.12","sdk/v0.1.11","sdk/v0.1.10","api/v1.0.2","sdk/v0.1.9","api/v1.0.1","sdk/v0.1.8"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-8185.json"}}],"references":[{"type":"WEB","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":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/8xxx/CVE-2024-8185.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8185"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/hashicorp/vault"}],"database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"HashiCorp","cwe_ids":["CWE-636"],"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/8xxx/CVE-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"}]}