CVE-2023-0845 (GCVE-0-2023-0845)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-09 15:14 – Updated: 2025-02-28 16:24
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Consul Server Panic when Ingress and API Gateways Configured with Peering
Summary
Consul and Consul Enterprise allowed an authenticated user with service:write permissions to trigger a workflow that causes Consul server and client agents to crash under certain circumstances. This vulnerability was fixed in Consul 1.14.5.
Severity
4.9 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-28 16:24 UTC
CWE
- CWE-476 - Null Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HashiCorp | Consul |
Affected:
1.14.0
Affected: 1.14.1 Affected: 1.14.2 Affected: 1.14.3 Affected: 1.14.4 |
guessed | |
| HashiCorp | Consul Enterprise |
Affected:
1.14.0
Affected: 1.14.1 Affected: 1.14.2 Affected: 1.14.3 Affected: 1.14.4 |
guessed |
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- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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