{"id":"CVE-2024-8185","aliases":["BIT-openbao-2024-8185","BIT-vault-2024-8185","GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v","GO-2024-3246"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2024-8185","summary":"Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Processing Raft Join Requests","details":"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.\n\nThis 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.","published":"2024-10-31T15:14:55.145Z","modified":"2026-08-12T03:51:43.485338522Z","cvss":{"score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"epss":{"score":0.00476,"percentile":0.39498,"asOf":"2026-09-08"},"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":0,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/hashicorp/vault","fixedVersion":"1.18.1"},{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/openbao/openbao","fixedVersion":"2.0.3"}],"fix":null,"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-26-vault-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-through-memory-exhaustion-when-processing-raft-cluster-join-requests/71047"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/8xxx/CVE-2024-8185.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8185"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/hashicorp/vault"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-08-12T03:51:43.485338522Z"}}