Consul and Consul Enterprise allowed any user with service:write permissions to use Envoy extensions configured via service-defaults to patch remote proxy instances that target the configured service, regardless of whether the user has permission to modify the service(s) corresponding to those modified proxies.

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 allowed any user with service:write permissions to use Envoy extensions     configured via service-defaults to patch remote proxy instances that target the configured service,     regardless of whether the user has permission to modify the service(s) corresponding to those modified     proxies. (CVE-2023-2816)

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 allowed any user with service:write permissions to use Envoy extensions
    configured via service-defaults to patch remote proxy instances that target the configured service,
    regardless of whether the user has permission to modify the service(s) corresponding to those modified
    proxies. (CVE-2023-2816)

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 telegraf package has been released.

The version of telegraf installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2023-2816 advisory.

  - Consul and Consul Enterprise allowed any user with service:write permissions to use Envoy extensions     configured via service-defaults to patch remote proxy instances that target the configured service,     regardless of whether the user has permission to modify the service(s) corresponding to those modified     proxies. (CVE-2023-2816)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
256750	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-2816	Nessus	Misc.	medium
418872	SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/consul (GHSA-rqjq-ww83-wv5c)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
418872	SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/consul (GHSA-rqjq-ww83-wv5c)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
212181	GLSA-202412-14 : HashiCorp Consul: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
204388	Photon OS 5.0: Telegraf PHSA-2023-5.0-0041	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
201820	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: telegraf (CVE-2023-2816)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	medium

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