TI-2024-11399 Aliases CVE-2024-12289 GHSA-xx83-cxmq-x89m

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

LOW 27CWE-460Published 2024-12-12 · Updated 2024-12-13

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: High
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00394 33rd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed Boundary (HashiCorp): 0.18.2Boundary Enterprise (HashiCorp): 0.18.2+1 more product

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
HashiCorp	Boundary	0.8.0 to before 0.18.2	0.18.2	Patch available	CNA
HashiCorp	Boundary Enterprise	0.8.0 to before 0.18.2	0.18.2	Patch available	CNA
—	github.com/hashicorp/boundary (Go)	before 0.18.2	0.18.2	Patch available	GHSA-xx83-cxmq-x89m

Boundary VendorHashiCorp Affected 0.8.0 to before 0.18.2 Fixed in 0.18.2 Patch available CNA
Boundary Enterprise VendorHashiCorp Affected 0.8.0 to before 0.18.2 Fixed in 0.18.2 Patch available CNA
github.com/hashicorp/boundary (Go) Vendor— Affected before 0.18.2 Fixed in 0.18.2 Patch available GHSA-xx83-cxmq-x89m

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:boundary::::::::	0.8.0 to before 0.16.4; 0.17.0 to before 0.17.3; 0.18.0 to before 0.18.2	Vulnerable	HashiCorp

cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:boundary:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 0.8.0 to before 0.16.4; 0.17.0 to before 0.17.3; 0.18.0 to before 0.18.2 Vulnerable ·HashiCorp

Remediation

Fix · CNA Boundary (HashiCorp) Fixed in 0.18.2
Fix · CNA Boundary Enterprise (HashiCorp) Fixed in 0.18.2
Fix · GHSA-xx83-cxmq-x89m github.com/hashicorp/boundary (Go) Fixed in 0.18.2 Advisory →

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-12289
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-xx83-cxmq-x89m

References

Advisory 2

Other 1

https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary

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TI-2023-00652 Boundary Workers Store Rotated Credentials in Plaintext Even When a Key Management Service Configured CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1
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Sources

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