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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2020-12797 BIT-consul-2020-12797EUVD-2021-1337GHSA-hwqm-x785-qh8pGO-2022-0847

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in Hashicorp Consul

Published Jun 11, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 11 consul 1.7.4+dfsg1-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS consul No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/hashicorp/consul >= 1.6.0, < 1.6.6 1.6.6 GHSA-hwqm-x785-qh8p
Go github.com/hashicorp/consul >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.4 1.7.4 GHSA-hwqm-x785-qh8p
Go github.com/hashicorp/consul >= 1.6.0, < 1.6.6 · >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.4 1.6.6, 1.7.4 GO-2022-0847

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