GHSA-h65h-v7fw-4p38

HashiCorp Consul Incorrect Access Control vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2019-12291

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Go	github.com/hashicorp/consul	>= 1.4.0, < 1.5.1	1.5.1

Details

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

HashiCorp Consul 1.4.0 through 1.5.0 has Incorrect Access Control. Keys not matching a specific ACL rule used for prefix matching in a policy can be deleted by a token using that policy even with default deny settings configured. ### Specific Go Packages Affected github.com/hashicorp/consul/acl

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12291 advisory
https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5888 web
https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/commit/36ebca1fd0129278487c6570449bc8cc03987890 web
https://github.com/hashicorp/consul package
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/consul web