SB2020061809 - Multiple vulnerabilities in HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise
Published: June 18, 2020 Updated: June 18, 2020
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 vulnerabilities.
1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-13170)
CWE-ID: CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to the affected software does not appropriately enforce scope for local tokens issued by a primary data center, where replication to a secondary data center was not enabled., which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.
2) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-12797)
CWE-ID: CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to the affected software fails to enforce changes to legacy ACL token rules due to non-propagation to secondary data centers, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.
3) Improper Resource Shutdown or Release (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-12758)
CWE-ID: CWE-404 - Improper Resource Shutdown or Release
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the affected can software crash when configured with an abnormally-formed service-router entry. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service condition on the targeted system.
4) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-13250)
CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in HTTP API and DNS caching feature. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.6.6/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.7.4/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8068
- https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8047
- https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7783
- https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8023