GHSA-4qvx-qq5w-695p

HashiCorp Consul can use cleartext agent-to-agent RPC communication

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2018-19653

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Go	github.com/hashicorp/consul	>= 0.5.1, < 1.4.1	1.4.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19653 advisory
https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5069 web
https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/commit/b64e8b262f80397eab4f39c6ae7e14683cb9f55c web
https://github.com/hashicorp/consul package
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/consul-tool/7TCw06oio0I web