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SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/consul (GHSA-q7fx-wm2p-qfj8)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432446

Description

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

 - HashiCorp Consul 1.4.3 lacks server hostname verification for agent-to-agent TLS communication. In other
 words, the product behaves as if verify_server_hostname were set to false, even when it is actually set to
 true. This is fixed in 1.4.4. (CVE-2019-9764)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q7fx-wm2p-qfj8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 432446

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9764

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/26/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9764

cwe: CWE-346