CVE-2019-8336

HIGH8.1EPSS 0.36%

HashiCorp Consul Access Restriction Bypass

Published: 5/13/2022Modified: 8/20/2024

Also known as:GHSA-fhm8-cxcv-pwvcGO-2023-1945

Description

HashiCorp Consul (and Consul Enterprise) 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows a client to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain the privileges of one other arbitrary token within secondary datacenters, because a token with literally "<hidden>" as its secret is used in unusual circumstances.

Affected packages (2)

Go/github.com/hashicorp/consul>= 1.4.0, < 1.4.3
Go/github.com/hashicorp/consul>= 1.4.0, < 1.4.3

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH8.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (6)

ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fhm8-cxcv-pwvc
ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8336
PATCHhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul
WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/003370ded024096cd89fb2aa2bc15293c23b9707/agent/consul/leader.go#L405
WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/commit/90040f8bffb311e6cd8599273e95b607175e311f
WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5423