CVE-2023-3518High· 7.4▾ TwilightConsul JWT Auth in L7 Intentions Allow for Mismatched Service Identity and JWT Providers
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 40.7 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Disclosed via OSV
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.4%
0.4% → 0.4%
A vulnerability was identified in Consul such that using JWT authentication for service mesh incorrectly allows/denies access regardless of service identities. This vulnerability, CVE-2023-3518, affects Consul 1.16.0 and was fixed in 1.16.1.
github.com/hashicorp/consul >= 1.16.0, < 1.16.1Upgrade to a patched release:
github.com/hashicorp/consul 1.16.1Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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