CVE-2026-15972 (GCVE-0-2026-15972)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-07 19:20
Modified
2026-08-10 18:24
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CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
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| HashiCorp | Consul |
Version: 1.13.0 ≤ |
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