A vulnerability has been found in HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise up to 1.20.0 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown part of the component HTTP Request Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability was identified in Consul and Consul Enterprise (“Consul”) such that using URL paths in L7 traffic intentions could bypass HTTP request path-based access rules.

The advisory is available at discuss.hashicorp.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-10005 since 10/15/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 210710 (SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : govulncheck-vulndb (SUSE-SU-2024:3950-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.20.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (210710).

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• HashiCorp

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• Consul
• Consul Enterprise

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20

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• open-source

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