CVE-2020-13250

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.87%

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Hashicorp Consul in github.com/hashicorp/consul

Published: 5/18/2021Modified: 4/3/2025

Also known as:GHSA-rqjq-mrgx-85hpBIT-consul-2020-13250DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13250GO-2022-0879

Description

HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise include an HTTP API (introduced in 1.2.0) and DNS (introduced in 1.4.3) caching feature that was vulnerable to denial of service. Fixed in 1.6.6 and 1.7.4.

Affected packages (4)

Bitnami/consul>= 1.2.0, < 1.6.6, >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.4
Debian/consulfrom 0, < 1.7.4+dfsg1-1
Go/github.com/hashicorp/consul>= 1.2.0, < 1.6.6
Go/github.com/hashicorp/consul>= 1.2.0, < 1.6.6, >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.4

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (7)

ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rqjq-mrgx-85hp
ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13250
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-13250
WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.6.6/CHANGELOG.md
WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.7.4/CHANGELOG.md
WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/commit/72f92ae7ca4cabc1dc3069362a9b64ef46941432
WEBhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8023