CVE-2023-2816
Consul and Consul Enterprise allowed any user with service:write permissions to use Envoy extensions configured via service-defaults to patch remote proxy instances that target the configured service, regardless of whether the user has permission to…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.58%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Consul and Consul Enterprise allowed any user with service:write permissions to use Envoy extensions configured via service-defaults to patch remote proxy instances that target the configured service, regardless of whether the user has permission to modify the service(s) corresponding to those modified proxies.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.58% probability · 46th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-266
- Affected
- hashicorp/consul
- Source
- security@hashicorp.com
References
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.