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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2024-12289 EUVD-2024-3526GHSA-xx83-cxmq-x89mGO-2024-3335

Boundary Controller Incorrectly Handles HTTP Requests On Initialization Which May Lead to a Denial of Service

Published Dec 12, 2024 · Updated Dec 13, 2024 · Assigned by HashiCorp

Description

Boundary Community Edition and Boundary Enterprise (“Boundary”) incorrectly handle HTTP requests during the initialization of the Boundary controller, which may cause the Boundary server to terminate prematurely. Boundary is only vulnerable to this flaw during the initialization of the Boundary controller, which on average is measured in milliseconds during the Boundary startup process.

This vulnerability, CVE-2024-12289, is fixed in Boundary Community Edition and Boundary Enterprise 0.16.4, 0.17.3, 0.18.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
HashiCorp Boundary 0.8.0 – < 0.18.2 0.18.2
HashiCorp Boundary Enterprise 0.8.0 – < 0.18.2 0.18.2

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20241218T202206-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:14603-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/hashicorp/boundary < 0.18.2 0.18.2 GHSA-xx83-cxmq-x89m

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