CVE-2024-8185: Hashicorp Vault

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Hashicorp Vault: from 1.2.0, before 1.16.12 (fixed in 1.16.12); from 1.2.0, before 1.18.1 (fixed in 1.18.1); from 1.17.0, before 1.17.8 (fixed in 1.17.8); version 1.18.0 only
• Openbao Openbao: before 2.0.3 (fixed in 2.0.3)

Published 2024-10-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.