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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2024-8185)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3950-1 advisory.

    - Update to version 0.0.20241104T154416 2024-11-04T15:44:16Z.
      Refs jsc#PED-11136       Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:
      * GO-2024-3233 CVE-2024-46872 GHSA-762g-9p7f-mrww
      * GO-2024-3234 CVE-2024-47401 GHSA-762v-rq7q-ff97
      * GO-2024-3235 CVE-2024-50052 GHSA-g376-m3h3-mj4r
      * GO-2024-3237 CVE-2024-0133 GHSA-f748-7hpg-88ch
      * GO-2024-3239 CVE-2024-0132 GHSA-mjjw-553x-87pq
      * GO-2024-3240 CVE-2024-10452 GHSA-66c4-2g2v-54qw
      * GO-2024-3241 CVE-2024-10006 GHSA-5c4w-8hhh-3c3h
      * GO-2024-3242 CVE-2024-10086 GHSA-99wr-c2px-grmh
      * GO-2024-3243 CVE-2024-10005 GHSA-chgm-7r52-whjj

    - Update to version 0.0.20241101T215616 2024-11-01T21:56:16Z.
      Refs jsc#PED-11136       Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:
      * GO-2024-3244 CVE-2024-50354 GHSA-cph5-3pgr-c82g
      * GO-2024-3245 CVE-2024-39720
      * GO-2024-3246 CVE-2024-8185 GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
414779	SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/vault, github.com/openbao/openbao (GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
414779	SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/vault, github.com/openbao/openbao (GHSA-g233-2p4r-3q7v)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
210710	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : govulncheck-vulndb (SUSE-SU-2024:3950-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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