CVE-2020-12797
MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.41%Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in Hashicorp Consul in github.com/hashicorp/consul
Published: 6/23/2021Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise failed to enforce changes to legacy ACL token rules due to non-propagation to secondary data centers. Introduced in 1.4.0, fixed in 1.6.6 and 1.7.4.
Affected packages (4)
- Bitnami/consul>= 1.4.0, < 1.6.7, >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.4
- Debian/consulfrom 0, < 1.7.4+dfsg1-1
- Go/github.com/hashicorp/consul>= 1.6.0, < 1.6.6
- Go/github.com/hashicorp/consul>= 1.6.0, < 1.6.6, >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hwqm-x785-qh8p
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12797
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-12797
- WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.6.6/CHANGELOG.md
- WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.7.4/CHANGELOG.md
- WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/commit/98eea08d3ba1b220a14cf6eedf3b6b07ae2795d7
- WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5606
- WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8047