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CVE-2021-38698

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.5)—

HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise 1.10.1 Txn.Apply endpoint allowed services to register proxies for other services, enabling access to service traffic. Fixed in 1.8.15, 1.9.9 and 1.10.2.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Hashicorp — Consul

CWEs

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