CVE-2020-12797: HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise failed to enforce changes to legacy ACL token rules due to non-propagation to secondary data centers

Medium severity · published Jun 11, 2020

CVE-2020-12797

HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise failed to enforce changes to legacy ACL token rules due to non-propagation to secondary data centers

5.3

CVSS

1.5%

EPSS

On KEV

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack vector

Network

Complexity

Low

Privileges

None

User interaction

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Scope

Unchanged

Exploitation

Is it being used?

Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 75% of CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet

CISA KEVNot listed

Ransomware campaign useNot known

Affected products

Which versions

Consul · Hashicorp

1.4.0 before 1.6.6; 1.4.0 through 1.6.6; 1.7.0 before 1.7.4; 1.7.0 before 1.7.4 · source: NVD

Affected product

Consul

Hashicorp

All Consul CVEs

References

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12797

CVE.org

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12797

Release Notes

https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.6.6/CHANGELOG.md

Release Notes

https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.7.4/CHANGELOG.md

Patch

https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8047