# CVE-2024-12289: Boundary Controller Incorrectly Handles HTTP Requests On Initialization Which May Lead to a Denial of Service

> CVE-2024-12289: Boundary Controller Incorrectly Handles HTTP Requests On Initialization Which May Lead to a Denial of Service. CVSS 5.9 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2024-12289
Last updated: 2026-06-17T06:59:26Z

- Published: 2024-12-12 22:42 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 06:59 UTC · Assigner: HashiCorp
- CVSS: 5.9 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS: 0.39%, 33th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-460

## 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 vendors and products

- HashiCorp: Boundary
- HashiCorp: Boundary Enterprise

## Tracked companies

- [HashiCorp](https://rewindex.com/company/hashicorp.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12289)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12289)
- [https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-28-boundary-controller-incorrectly-handles-http-requests-on-initialization-which-may-lead-to-a-denial-of-service](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-28-boundary-controller-incorrectly-handles-http-requests-on-initialization-which-may-lead-to-a-denial-of-service)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2024-12289 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2024-12289.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2024-12289 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:12:12.950Z