SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/consul (GHSA-p2j5-3f4c-224r)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417224

Description

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

- HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise did not appropriately enforce scope for local tokens issued by a
primary data center, where replication to a secondary data center was not enabled. Introduced in 1.4.0,
fixed in 1.6.6 and 1.7.4. (CVE-2020-13170)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p2j5-3f4c-224r

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417224

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13170

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13170

cwe: CWE-20