Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-40716

Medium

Published: 23 September 2022

Published
23 September 2022
Modified
27 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0036 58.6th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-40716 is a medium-severity Unchecked Return Value (CWE-252) vulnerability in Hashicorp Consul. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 41.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise up to 1.11.8, 1.12.4, and 1.13.1 do not check for multiple SAN URI values in a CSR on the internal RPC endpoint, enabling leverage of privileged access to bypass service mesh intentions. Fixed in 1.11.9,…

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1.12.5, and 1.13.2."

CWE(s)
CWE-252

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

hashicorp
consul
≤ 1.11.9 · ≤ 1.11.9 · 1.12.0 — 1.12.5

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References