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high 8.8

CVE-2026-105608 json

Consul vulnerable to an authorization bypass in service mesh registration

published 14d ago modified 14d ago also EUVD-2026-110053

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 39%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise are vulnerable to an authorization bypass in service mesh proxy registration. This may allow a user with service write permission to apply Envoy escape-hatch configuration without the required mesh write permission. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-105608) is fixed in Consul Community Edition 2.1.0 and Consul Enterprise 2.1.0 and 1.21.19.

Patch / fix

  • HashiCorp Consul 2.1.0
  • HashiCorp Consul Enterprise 1.21.19, 2.1.0

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-105608 updated cvss 8.8

github.com/hashicorp/consul: Consul: Authorization bypass via service mesh proxy registration

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 grafana, grafana-selinux
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 grafana, grafana-loki, grafana-mssql, grafana-mysql, grafana-selinux, grafana-graphite, +8 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
14d ago

Exploit prediction

0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • HashiCorp Consul
  • HashiCorp Consul Enterprise

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-178 Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity

References

Sources

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CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.