Consul vulnerable to an authorization bypass in the catalog node-write path
Consul and Consul Enterprise are vulnerable to an authorization bypass in the catalog node-write path that may allow an authenticated attacker to delete another node's catalog registration and take over its node identity. An attacker with a token granting node-write permission on any single node name may exploit this issue if they can obtain the node ID of a node they do not control. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-87090) is fixed in Consul 2.0.4 and Consul Enterprise 1.21.18, 1.22.12 and 2.0.4.
BIT-consul-2026-87090
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: osv:BIT-consul-2026-87090
consul
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- 2.0.4
Source reference:
/affected/0/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "SEMVER",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0.1.0"
},
{
"fixed": "2.0.4"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "consul",
"purl": "pkg:bitnami/consul",
"ecosystem": "Bitnami"
},
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/consul/BIT-consul-2026-87090.json"
}
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-87090
Source reference:
/aliases
Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /database_specific/severity
- Event
- #15225 · Revision 1
- Added to Heist Feed
- Publisher date