Resource exhaustion in Consul and Consul Enterprise - CVE-2023-1297

 

Resource exhaustion in Consul and Consul Enterprise - CVE-2023-1297

Published: September 19, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU80885
CSH Severity: High
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-2023-1297
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 application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Consul
Consul Enterprise
Gentoo Linux
app-admin/consul
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps

How to mitigate CVE-2023-1297

Install updates from vendor's website.

Consul - addressed in versions 1.14.5, 1.15.3
Consul Enterprise - addressed in versions 1.14.5, 1.15.3
app-admin/consul - update to 1.15.10
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.1

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