CVE-2023-1297

MEDIUM4.9EPSS 0.24%

Consul Cluster Peering can Result in Denial of Service

Published: 6/3/2023Modified: 5/20/2025

Also known as:GHSA-c57c-7hrj-6q6vBIT-consul-2023-1297CGA-q73x-wh7m-7rfxGO-2023-1827

Description

Consul and Consul Enterprise's cluster peering implementation contained a flaw whereby a peer cluster with service of the same name as a local service could corrupt Consul state, resulting in denial of service. This vulnerability was resolved in Consul 1.14.5, and 1.15.3

Affected packages (3)

Bitnami/consul>= 1.13.0, < 1.14.7, >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.3
Go/github.com/hashicorp/consulfrom 0, < 1.14.5
Go/github.com/hashicorp/consulfrom 0, < 1.14.5, >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.3

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM4.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (4)

ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c57c-7hrj-6q6v
ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1297
PATCHhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul
WEBhttps://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-15-consul-cluster-peering-can-result-in-denial-of-service/54515