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Privilege Escalation in HashiCorp Consul

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jan 31, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 31, 2024

Package

gomod github.com/hashicorp/consul (Go)

Affected versions

>= 1.2.0, < 1.6.10
>= 1.7.0, < 1.7.10
>= 1.8.0, < 1.8.6

Patched versions

1.6.10
1.7.10
1.8.6

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 23, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 31, 2024
Reviewed Jan 31, 2024
Last updated Jan 31, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.104%
(44th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-28053

GHSA ID

GHSA-6m72-467w-94rh

Source code

No known source code
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