SB2020102613 - Denial of service in HashiCorp Consul
Published: October 26, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020102613
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-25201)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to issues with the namespace replication logic. A remote authenticated attacker can write a malicious config entry that causes infinite raft and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.