SB2024110119 - Remote denial of service in Hashicorp Vault and Vault Enterprise
Published: November 1, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB2024110119
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-8185)
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.