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SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/consul (GHSA-rqjq-ww83-wv5c)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418872

Description

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)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rqjq-ww83-wv5c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 418872

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: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.66

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2816

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 6/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2816

cwe: CWE-266