Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-1297

Hashicorp Consul 1.13.0 – 1.14.7

Published
02 June 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.9
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0077 52th percentile
Risk Priority 40 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2023-1297 is a medium-severity Premature Release of Resource During Expected Lifetime (CWE-826) vulnerability in Hashicorp Consul. Its CVSS base score is 4.9 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked in the top 48% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

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Vulnerability Data

Consul and Consul Enterprise's cluster peering implementation contained a flaw whereby a peer cluster with service of the same name as a local service could corrupt Consul state, resulting in denial of service. This vulnerability was resolved in Consul 1.14.5,…

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and 1.15.3

CWE(s)
CWE-826NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
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T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution Execution
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in client applications to execute code.
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T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement
Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.
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T1212 Exploitation for Credential Access Credential Access
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to collect credentials.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

hashicorp
consul
1.13.0 — 1.14.7 · 1.13.0 — 1.14.7 · 1.15.0 — 1.15.3

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure development practices directly address coding errors that release resources while they are still needed.

ID.RA-01 partial match
prevents

Vulnerability identification processes can discover instances of premature resource release after code is deployed.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance mostly match
finds

Security testing can detect premature-release bugs, providing partial mitigation.

A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match
prevents

Secure development lifecycle practices can include resource-lifetime checks that reduce premature-release defects.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match
prevents

Application security requirements can mandate explicit resource-release rules, partially addressing the weakness.

A.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles partial match
prevents

Secure architecture principles encourage proper resource scoping and lifetime management.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding standards directly prohibit premature resource release, covering most of the weakness.

A.8.32 Change management none match
none

Change-management processes may catch resource-handling regressions but do not directly prevent the weakness.

References