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HIGH

consul: HTTP/RPC Services Allow Unbounded Resource Usage

Published Jan 31, 2020

Description

HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise up to 1.6.2 HTTP/RPC services allowed unbounded resource usage, and were susceptible to unauthenticated denial of service. Fixed in 1.6.3.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat mitigation

Enforce network connection limits on Consul server agents by using the following iptables rule: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn --dport 8300 -m connlimit --connlimit-above 100 -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 31, 2020
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Jan 17, 2020
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Jan 28, 2020
GHSA-23JV-V6QJ-3FHH