CVE-2022-40716 HashiCorp Consul vulnerable to authorization bypass

What is CVE-2022-40716?

CVE-2022-40716 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 23 Sep 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise up to 1.11.8, 1.12.4, and 1.13.1 do not check for multiple SAN URI values in a CSR on the internal RPC endpoint, enabling leverage of privileged access to bypass service mesh intentions. Fixed in 1.11.9, 1.12.5, and 1.13.2."

Weakness: CWE-252

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-40716?

8 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/hashicorp/consul and consul. It affects 1 product.

Products include Hashicorp Consul.

How do I fix CVE-2022-40716?

Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/consul to a fixed version for your release line: 1.11.9, 1.12.5 or 1.13.2.

Is CVE-2022-40716 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-40716 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2021-41805 Privilege escalation in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2021-37219 HashiCorp Consul Privilege Escalation Vulnerability High 8.8
• CVE-2023-2816 Consul Envoy Extension Downsteam Proxy Configuration By Upstream Service Owner High 8.7
• CVE-2024-10006 Consul L7 Intentions Vulnerable To Headers Bypass High 8.3
• CVE-2024-10005 Consul L7 Intentions Vulnerable To URL Path Bypass High 8.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-consul-2022-40716, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-40716, GHSA-m69r-9g56-7mv8, GO-2022-1029, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40716.