8.7

CVE-2023-2816: hashicorp consul Incorrect Privilege Assignment

CVSS: 8.7v3.1HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-2816GHSA-rqjq-ww83-wv5cBIT-consul-2023-2816
Published 02-06-2023Last modified 07-10-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-2816 is a high (CVSS 8.7) Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in hashicorp consul. EPSS estimates a 0.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.7/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.58%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 02-06-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-10-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Consul and Consul Enterprise allowed any user with service:write permissions to use Envoy extensions configured via service-defaults to patch remote proxy instances that target the configured service, regardless of whether the user has permission to modify the service(s) corresponding to those modified proxies.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.58%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

47%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.58% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.58%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Hashicorp2 products
Github.com/hashicorp1 product
  • consul≥ 1.15.0, < 1.15.3
Ubuntu1 product
  • consulAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 4 products

References

6 links