Vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault

CVE-2024-8185

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…

EPSS: 0.008 (74.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-8185?
CVE-2024-8185 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault, classified under CWE-636. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-10-31.
How severe is CVE-2024-8185?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-8185 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.