Consul and Consul Enterprise's cluster peering implementation contained a flaw whereby a peer cluster with service of the same name as a local service could corrupt Consul state, resulting in denial of service. This vulnerability was resolved in Consul 1.14.5, and 1.15.3

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Consul and Consul Enterprise's cluster peering implementation contained a flaw whereby a peer cluster with     service of the same name as a local service could corrupt Consul state, resulting in denial of service.
    This vulnerability was resolved in Consul 1.14.5, and 1.15.3 (CVE-2023-1297)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Consul and Consul Enterprise's cluster peering implementation contained a flaw whereby a peer cluster with
    service of the same name as a local service could corrupt Consul state, resulting in denial of service.
    This vulnerability was resolved in Consul 1.14.5, and 1.15.3 (CVE-2023-1297)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202412-14 (HashiCorp Consul: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in HashiCorp Consul. Please review the CVE identifiers     referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update of the consul package has been released.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
256616	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-1297	Nessus	Misc.	high
413664	SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/consul (GHSA-c57c-7hrj-6q6v)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
413664	SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/consul (GHSA-c57c-7hrj-6q6v)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
212181	GLSA-202412-14 : HashiCorp Consul: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
203591	Photon OS 5.0: Consul PHSA-2023-5.0-0053	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2023-1297

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

critical

high