Vulnerability in HashiCorp Consul (CVE-2020-25864)
Summary
Vulnerability in HashiCorp Consul (CVE-2020-25864). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 1.9.5 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise up to version 1.9.4 key-value (KV) raw mode was vulnerable to cross-site scripting. Fixed in 1.9.5, 1.8.10 and 1.7.14.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-25864 has been found in HashiCorp Consul.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade HashiCorp Consul to 1.9.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "HashiCorp Consul CVE-2020-25864" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2020-25864 (HashiCorp Consul)
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated
Patched: 1.9.5 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in HashiCorp Consul.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of HashiCorp Consul.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 1.9.5.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで HashiCorp Consul を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Apply patch patch
Upgrade HashiCorp Consul to 1.9.5ステージング環境で 1.9.5 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25864 consul Fixed in: 1.8.7+dfsg1-2
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package github.com
- web discuss.hashicorp.com
- web security.gentoo.org
- web hashicorp.com