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Medium · 4.9 CVE-2023-1297 BIT-consul-2023-1297EUVD-2023-1770GHSA-c57c-7hrj-6q6vGO-2023-1827

Consul Cluster Peering can Result in Denial of Service

Published Jun 2, 2023 · Updated Jan 8, 2025 · Assigned by HashiCorp

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
HashiCorp Consul 1.14.0 – ≤ 1.14.5, 1.15.0 – ≤ 1.15.3 —
HashiCorp Consul Enterprise 1.14.0 – ≤ 1.14.5, 1.15.0 – ≤ 1.15.3 —

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
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS consul No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS consul No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS consul No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling k3d +2 5.6.0-r11 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/hashicorp/consul < 1.14.5 1.14.5 GHSA-c57c-7hrj-6q6v
Go github.com/hashicorp/consul >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.3 1.15.3 GHSA-c57c-7hrj-6q6v
Go github.com/hashicorp/consul < 1.14.5 · >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.3 1.14.5, 1.15.3 GO-2023-1827

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