CVE-2024-12289

Description

Boundary Community Edition and Boundary Enterprise (“Boundary”) incorrectly handle HTTP requests during the initialization of the Boundary controller, which may cause the Boundary server to terminate prematurely. Boundary is only vulnerable to this flaw during the initialization of the Boundary controller, which on average is measured in milliseconds during the Boundary startup process. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-12289, is fixed in Boundary Community Edition and Boundary Enterprise 0.16.4, 0.17.3, 0.18.2.

CVSS Metrics

• v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.39%• Percentile: 61%

Techniques & Countermeasures

• CWE-460•Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception

  The product does not clean up its state or incorrectly cleans up its state when an exception is thrown, leading to unexpected state or control flow.

• CWE-665•Improper Initialization

  The product does not initialize or incorrectly initializes a resource, which might leave the resource in an unexpected state when it is accessed or used.

Affected Systems

• github.com/hashicorp•boundary

  < 0.18.2

• hashicorp•boundary

  ≥ 0.8.0, < 0.18.2 | ≥ 0.8.0, < 0.16.4 | ≥ 0.17.0, < 0.17.3 | ≥ 0.18.0, < 0.18.2

• hashicorp•boundary enterprise

  ≥ 0.8.0, < 0.18.2

References (4)

• https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-28-boundary-controller-incorrectly-handles-http-requests-on-initialization-which-may-lead-to-a-denial-of-service
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12289
• https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xx83-cxmq-x89m