CVE-2019-8336

Publication date 5 March 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

HashiCorp Consul (and Consul Enterprise) 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows a client to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain the privileges of one other arbitrary token within secondary datacenters, because a token with literally ”<hidden>” as its secret is used in unusual circumstances.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
consul	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

alexmurray

Only affected the 1.4.x series before 1.4.3 so did not affect any versions of consul in Ubuntu.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.1 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H