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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-03-13 09:02

Modified

2026-03-13 09:37

Summary

Consul vulnerable to arbitrary file reads through the vault kubernetes authentication provider

Details

HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise 1.18.20 up to 1.21.10 and 1.22.4 are vulnerable to arbitrary file read when configured with Kubernetes authentication. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-2808, is fixed in Consul 1.18.21, 1.21.11 and 1.22.5.

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  "id": "BIT-consul-2026-2808",
  "modified": "2026-03-13T09:37:20.375Z",
  "published": "2026-03-13T09:02:37.072Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-02-consul-vulnerable-to-arbitrary-file-reads-through-the-vault-kubernetes-authentication-provider/77232"
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  "summary": "Consul vulnerable to arbitrary file reads through the vault kubernetes authentication provider"
}

CVE-2026-2808 (GCVE-0-2026-2808)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-11 23:08 – Updated: 2026-03-12 13:28

Title

Consul vulnerable to arbitrary file reads through the vault kubernetes authentication provider

Summary

Severity ?

6.8 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (Link Following)

Assigner

HashiCorp

References

URL

Tags

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-02-con…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

HashiCorp

Consul

Affected: 0 , < 1.22.5 (semver)

HashiCorp

Consul Enterprise

Affected: 0 , < 1.22.5 (semver)

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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