Unauthenticated denial of service via unbounded request body processing
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · Low
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-400.
Summary
Consul Community Edition and Consul Enterprise 1.3.0 through 2.0.2 are vulnerable to an unauthenticated denial of service in several agent HTTP API endpoints. A remote caller could cause the agent to consume substantial memory before the request was rejected. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-19113, is fixed in Consul 2.0.3 and Consul Enterprise 1.21.17, 1.22.11, and 2.0.3.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Consul (HashiCorp) Fixed in 2.0.3
- Fix · CNA Consul Enterprise (HashiCorp) Fixed in 2.0.3
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
HashiCorp Consul, Consul Enterprise 2.0.3
8 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 1 MEDIUM, 7 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-13374 Unauthenticated denial of service via unbounded external gRPC connection acceptancePriority MEDIUM 40
- TI-2026-15542 Consul vulnerable to partial arbitrary file read via Vault Connect CA providerPriority LOW 30
- TI-2026-15540 Uncontrolled resource consumption in the Consul Connect CA roots endpointPriority LOW 30
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-19113
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-27m6-255m-6q58
References
More HashiCorp vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-01904 Vault Cert Auth Method Did Not Correctly Validate Non-CA Certificates CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2021-18437 HashiCorp Consul Enterprise before 1.8.17, 1.9.x before 1.9.11, and 1.10.x before 1.10.4… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-06570 Nomad vulnerable to path traversal in dynamic host volume which may lead to code execution CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2020-17753 The official Consul Docker images 0.7.1 through 1.4.2 contain a blank password for a root… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-13641 consul-mcp-server vulnerable to cross-tenant credential reuse in streamable-HTTP stateless mode CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-13778 terraform-mcp-server vulnerable to cross-tenant credential reuse in streamable-HTTP stateless mode CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
Sources
- CVE-2026-19113 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-19113 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-27m6-255m-6q58 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-19113 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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