CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-41805
High (8.8) in hashicorp consul. EPSS 35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
HashiCorp Consul Enterprise before 1.8.17, 1.9.x before 1.9.11, and 1.10.x before 1.10.4 has Incorrect Access Control. An ACL token (with the default operator:write permissions) in one namespace can be used for unintended privilege escalation in a different namespace.
Severity
- EPSS
- 35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-863
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- hashicorp:consul
References
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-29-consul-enterprise-namespace-default-acls-allow-privilege-escalation/31871
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211229-0007/
- https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/consul
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-29-consul-enterprise-namespace-default-acls-allow-privilege-escalation/31871
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211229-0007/