CVE-2026-115804: Consul vulnerable to an authorization bypass in health check registration
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2026-115804 is a medium (CVSS 6.4) vulnerability in hashicorp consul. EPSS estimates a 0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21.6% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 6.4, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Timeline
- 26-10-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 26-10-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise are vulnerable to an authorization bypass in health check registration that may allow an authenticated user to modify health checks belonging to another service on the same node. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-115804) is fixed in Consul Community Edition 2.1.0 and Consul Enterprise 2.1.0 and 1.21.19.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version- NVDNIST6.4MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated6.4MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated6.4MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
EPSS trend
Probability
0.29%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
22%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Change unavailable
Change unavailable
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Chainguard3 products
- consul-1.22All versions (No fix recorded)
- consul-2.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- consul-fips-1.22All versions (No fix recorded)
Hashicorp2 products
- consul≥ 0.7.2, < 2.1.0
- consul enterprise≥ 0.7.2, < 2.1.0
Ubuntu1 product
- consulAll versions (No fix recorded)
3 vendors · 6 products