Consul and Consul Enterprise allowed an authenticated user with service:write permissions to trigger a workflow that causes Consul server and client agents to crash under certain circumstances. This vulnerability was fixed in Consul 1.14.5.
Weakness
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consul | Hashicorp | * | 1.14.5 (excluding) |
| Consul | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Consul | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Consul | Ubuntu | kinetic | * |
| Consul | Ubuntu | mantic | * |
| Consul | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Consul | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
Potential Mitigations
References
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-06-consul-server-panic-when-ingress-and-api-gateways-configured-with-peering-connections/51197
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYZOKMMVX4SIEHPJW3SJUQGMO5YZCPHC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XNF4OLYZRQE75EB5TW5N42FSXHBXGWFE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZTE4ITXXPIWZEQ4HYQCB6N6GZIMWXDAI/
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-06-consul-server-panic-when-ingress-and-api-gateways-configured-with-peering-connections/51197
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYZOKMMVX4SIEHPJW3SJUQGMO5YZCPHC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XNF4OLYZRQE75EB5TW5N42FSXHBXGWFE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZTE4ITXXPIWZEQ4HYQCB6N6GZIMWXDAI/