CVE-2026-88021 (GCVE-0-2026-88021)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-10 18:58
Modified
2026-10-02 14:12
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CWE
- CWE-185 - Incorrect Regular Expression
Summary
Consul and Consul Enterprise are vulnerable to an authorization bypass in the Connect service mesh that may allow a service to reach a destination it is not authorized to access. When building Envoy RBAC rules to enforce Connect intentions, Consul did not correctly escape certain characters in service names, namespaces, and partitions, causing the generated authorization rules to match more broadly than intended. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-88021) is fixed in Consul 2.0.4 and Consul Enterprise 1.21.18, 1.22.12 and 2.0.4.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
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| HashiCorp | Consul |
Version: 1.9.0 ≤ |
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