#VU99577 Resource exhaustion in Vault and Vault Enterprise - CVE-2024-8185

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#VU99577 Resource exhaustion in Vault and Vault Enterprise - CVE-2024-8185

Published: November 1, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU99577
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Vault
Vault Enterprise
Software vendor:
HashiCorp

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.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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