CVE-2021-41805: Incorrect Authorization

December 12, 2021 (updated March 31, 2022)

HashiCorp Consul Enterprise has an Incorrect Access Control vulnerability. An ACL token (with the default operator:write permissions) in one namespace can be used for unintended privilege escalation in a different namespace.

References

discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-29-consul-enterprise-namespace-default-acls-allow-privilege-escalation/31871
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41805
www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/consul

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