CVE-2024-12289

Published: Dec 12, 2024Modified: Jun 17, 2026

5.9

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 2.2 / Impact: 3.6

Source: security@hashicorp.com (Secondary)

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 (3)

Products: Hashicorp: Boundary

1 product

Configuration A

3 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Hashicorp Boundary	From 0.17.0 to 0.17.3
Hashicorp Boundary	From 0.18.0 to 0.18.2
Hashicorp Boundary	From 0.8.0 to 0.16.4

Related CWEs

Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception

The product does not clean up its state or incorrectly cleans up its state when an exception is thrown, leading to unexpected state or control flow.

Improper Initialization

The product does not initialize or incorrectly initializes a resource, which might leave the resource in an unexpected state when it is accessed or used.

References (1)

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-28-boundary-controller-incorrectly-handles-http-requests-on-initialization-which-may-lead-to-a-denial-of-service

Source: security@hashicorp.com

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