CVE-2024-12289

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.

CVSS v3 5.9 MEDIUM

5.9^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.2 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

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

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:boundary::::::::
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	cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:boundary::::::::

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2024-12-12 23:15

Updated : 2025-12-29 17:17

NVD link : CVE-2024-12289

Mitre link : CVE-2024-12289

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-12289

JSON object : View

Products Affected

hashicorp

boundary

CWE

CWE-460

Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception

CWE-665

Improper Initialization

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