Medium severity · published Sep 23, 2022
CVE-2022-40716
HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise up to 1.11.8, 1.12.4, and 1.13.1 do not check for multiple SAN URI values in a CSR on the internal RPC endpoint, enabling leverage of…
6.5
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise up to 1.11.8, 1.12.4, and 1.13.1 do not check for multiple SAN URI values in a CSR on the internal RPC endpoint, enabling leverage of privileged access to bypass service mesh intentions. Fixed in 1.11.9, 1.12.5, and 1.13.2."
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 65% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CO
Consul · Hashicorp
before 1.11.9; before 1.11.9; 1.12.0 before 1.12.5; 1.12.0 before 1.12.5; 1.13.0 before 1.13.2; 1.13.0 before 1.13.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40716
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40716
Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.hashicorp.com
Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-20-consul-service-mesh-intention-bypass-with-malicious-certificate-signing-request/44628
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYZOKMMVX4SIEHPJW3SJUQGMO5YZCPHC/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XNF4OLYZRQE75EB5TW5N42FSXHBXGWFE/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZTE4ITXXPIWZEQ4HYQCB6N6GZIMWXDAI/
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