CVE-2026-15972

Consul Community Edition and Consul Enterprise 1.13.0 through 2.0.2 are vulnerable to an unauthenticated denial of service through unbounded connection acceptance on the external gRPC listeners. A remote attacker may exhaust agent file descriptors, goroutines, and memory by opening many incomplete connections, potentially preventing legitimate clients from connecting. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-15972, 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

7.5

CVSS 3.1 HIGH base score CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack profile

The conditions required to exploit this vulnerability and its potential impact.

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required None

User interaction None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality None

Integrity None

Availability High

Exploitability3.9

Impact3.6

Affected products

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Weakness classification

CWE categories help security teams group the underlying software weakness.

CWECWE-770

Source references

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NVD National Vulnerability Database recordnvd.nist.gov 01 Technical reference security@hashicorp.com