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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2020-28053 BIT-consul-2020-28053EUVD-2024-0275GHSA-6m72-467w-94rhGO-2024-2505

Privilege Escalation in HashiCorp Consul

Published Nov 23, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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.

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 1.8.6+dfsg1-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS consul No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS consul No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS consul No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/hashicorp/consul >= 1.2.0, < 1.6.10 1.6.10 GHSA-6m72-467w-94rh
Go github.com/hashicorp/consul >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.10 1.7.10 GHSA-6m72-467w-94rh
Go github.com/hashicorp/consul >= 1.8.0, < 1.8.6 1.8.6 GHSA-6m72-467w-94rh
Go github.com/hashicorp/consul >= 1.2.0, < 1.6.10 · >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.10 · >= 1.8.0, < 1.8.6 1.6.10, 1.7.10, 1.8.6 GO-2024-2505

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