Description
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: 2026-08-07
Score: 4.2 Medium
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KEV: No
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Description 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.
Title L7 intention authorization bypass via custom public listener
Weaknesses CWE-647
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: HashiCorp

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Updated: 2026-08-07T19:20:13.639Z

Reserved: 2026-07-16T15:31:32.340Z

Link: CVE-2026-15970

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Updated: 2026-08-07T20:30:17Z

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