CVE-2023-0845 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Consul and Consul Enterprise allowed an authenticated user with service:write permissions to trigger a workflow that causes Consul server and client agents to crash under certain circumstances. This vulnerability was fixed in Consul 1.14.5.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Hashicorp	Consul

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:consul:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-06-consul-server-panic-when-ingress-and-api-gateways-configured-with-peering-connections/51197
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYZOKMMVX4SIEHPJW3SJUQGMO5YZCPHC/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XNF4OLYZRQE75EB5TW5N42FSXHBXGWFE/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZTE4ITXXPIWZEQ4HYQCB6N6GZIMWXDAI/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0845
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0845

History

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: HashiCorp

Published: 2023-03-09T15:14:26.581Z

Updated: 2025-02-28T16:24:23.430Z

Reserved: 2023-02-15T15:53:44.942Z

Link: CVE-2023-0845

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:24:34.464Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-03-09T16:15:09.657

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:37:56.660

Link: CVE-2023-0845

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-03-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-0845 - Bugzilla

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