Remote denial of service in Hashicorp Vault and Vault Enterprise



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2024-8185
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 Vault
Web applications / Modules and components for CMS

Vault Enterprise
Web applications / Modules and components for CMS

Vendor HashiCorp

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU99577

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-8185

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in the Raft cluster join API endpoint. A remote attacker can send multiple HTTP requests to the affected API endpoint and consume all available memory resources.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Vault: 1.2.0 - 1.18.0

Vault Enterprise: 1.2.0 - 1.18.0

CPE2.3 External links

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://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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