CVE-2018-19653
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.9 · CWE-310
5.9CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
HashiCorp Consul 0.5.1 through 1.4.0 can use cleartext agent-to-agent RPC communication because the verify_outgoing setting is improperly documented. NOTE: the vendor has provided reconfiguration steps that do not require a software upgrade.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5069 ↗