Resource exhaustion in Consul Enterprise and Consul - CVE-2020-7219

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Resource exhaustion in Consul Enterprise and Consul - CVE-2020-7219

Published: February 5, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU24942
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7219
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the HTTP/RPC services allowed unbounded resource usage. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Consul Enterprise
Consul
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
IBM Edge Application Manager

How to mitigate CVE-2020-7219

Install updates from vendor's website.

Consul Enterprise - update to 1.6.3
Consul - update to 1.6.3
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 3.5.1

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