CVE-2026-105765 (GCVE-0-2026-105765)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-26 17:42 – Updated: 2026-10-26 18:12
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Title
Consul vulnerable to an authorization bypass in the agent's service mesh leaf certificate API
Summary
HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise 1.17.0 up to 2.0.4 are vulnerable to an authorization bypass in the agent's service mesh leaf certificate API that may allow an attacker without a valid ACL token to retrieve a cached service leaf certificate and its private key. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-105765) is fixed in Consul Community Edition 2.1.0 and Consul Enterprise 2.1.0 and 1.21.19.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
Assigner
HashiCorp CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 70/100 over 46 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
HashiCorp Consul Affected: 1.17.0 , < 2.1.0 (semver)
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HashiCorp Consul Enterprise Affected: 1.17.0 , < 2.1.0 (semver)
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Credits
This issue was reported to HashiCorp by Tomas Castillo (https://github.com/muertostech).
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