CVE-2024-8185
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Hashicorp Vault vulnerable to denial of service through memory exhaustion in github.com/hashicorp/vault
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=1.2.0,<1.18.1 | 1.18.1 |
| Go | github.com/openbao/openbao | <2.0.3 | 2.0.3 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8185
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/commit/195dfca433028887973f5bd82d173d91fe9dab4a
- 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/hashicorp/vault
- https://openbao.org/docs/release-notes/2-0-0/#203
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8185.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.