7.5

CVE-2024-8185: hashicorp vault Failing Open

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesGHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7vBIT-openbao-2024-8185BIT-vault-2024-8185
Published 31-10-2024Last modified 31-10-2024
Open JSON

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-8185 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Failing Open vulnerability in hashicorp vault. EPSS estimates a 0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.48%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 4
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:0350-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14452-1SUSE-SU-2024:3950-1CGA-M64P-2X95-P5JF

Timeline

  1. 31-10-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 31-10-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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. This 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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.48%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

40%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.48% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.48%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard4 products
  • vault-1.16All versions (No fix recorded)
  • vault-1.17All versions (No fix recorded)
  • vault-1.18< 1.18.1-r0
  • vault-1.18-compat< 1.18.1-r0
Hashicorp2 products
  • vaultEOL≥ 1.2.0, < 1.16.12 | ≥ 1.2.0, < 1.18.1 | ≥ 1.17.0, < 1.17.8 | 1.18.0
  • vault enterprise≥ 1.2.0, < 1.18.1
Github.com/hashicorp1 product
  • vault≥ 1.2.0, < 1.18.1
Github.com/openbao1 product
  • openbao< 2.0.3
Openbao1 product

5 vendors · 9 products

References

7 links