CVE-2020-28053
MEDIUM6.5EPSS 0.26%Privilege Escalation in HashiCorp Consul
Published: 1/31/2024Modified: 4/3/2025
Description
HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise 1.2.0 up to 1.8.5 allowed operators with operator:read ACL permissions to read the Connect CA private key configuration. Fixed in 1.6.10, 1.7.10, and 1.8.6.
Affected packages (4)
- Bitnami/consul>= 1.2.0, < 1.6.10, >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.10, >= 1.8.0, < 1.8.6
- Debian/consulfrom 0, < 1.8.6+dfsg1-1
- Go/github.com/hashicorp/consul>= 1.2.0, < 1.6.10
- Go/github.com/hashicorp/consul>= 1.2.0, < 1.6.10, >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.10, >= 1.8.0, < 1.8.6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6m72-467w-94rh
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28053
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-28053
- WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#186-november-19-2020
- WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/commit/ff5215d882ac51b49c2647aac46b42aa9c890ce3
- WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/9240
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-09
- WEBhttps://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/consul