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CVE-2026-15970
Consul Community Edition and Consul Enterprise 1.20.1 through 2.0.2 are vulnerable to an L7 intention authorization bypass when a service proxy is configured with a custom public listener. An authenticated mesh workload may reach HTTP paths that are blocked by a path-based deny intention. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-15970, is fixed in Consul 2.0.3 and Consul Enterprise 1.21.17, 1.22.11, and 2.0.3.
Published 07 Aug 2026, 20:16 UTC
Last modified 07 Aug 2026, 20:16 UTC
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Attack profile
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Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
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