Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-460

Allowed

Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception

Abstraction: Base · Status: Draft

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.

41 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.

GHSA-XX83-CXMQ-X89M

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-12-13 00:30 – Updated: 2025-12-31 22:00
VLAI
Summary
Boundary Community Edition Incorrectly Handles HTTP Requests On Initialization Which May Lead to a Denial of Service
Details

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.

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        "ecosystem": "Go",
        "name": "github.com/hashicorp/boundary"
      },
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
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              "fixed": "0.18.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
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  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-12289"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-460",
      "CWE-665"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-12-13T20:37:17Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-12-12T23:15:10Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "Boundary Community Edition and Boundary Enterprise (\u201cBoundary\u201d) 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.\n\nThis vulnerability, CVE-2024-12289, is fixed in Boundary Community Edition and Boundary Enterprise 0.16.4, 0.17.3, 0.18.2.",
  "id": "GHSA-xx83-cxmq-x89m",
  "modified": "2025-12-31T22:00:42Z",
  "published": "2024-12-13T00:30:50Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12289"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-28-boundary-controller-incorrectly-handles-http-requests-on-initialization-which-may-lead-to-a-denial-of-service"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary"
    }
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Boundary Community Edition Incorrectly Handles HTTP Requests On Initialization Which May Lead to a Denial of Service"
}

Mitigation
Implementation

If one breaks from a loop or function by throwing an exception, make sure that cleanup happens or that you should exit the program. Use throwing exceptions sparsely.

No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.