High
Security advisory
HashiCorp Consul (and Consul Enterprise) 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows a client to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain the privileges of one other arbitrary token within secondary datacenters, because a token with literally "" as its secret is used in unusual circumstances.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-8336
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
HashiCorp Consul (and Consul Enterprise) 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows a client to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain the privileges of one other arbitrary token within secondary datacenters, because a token with literally "" as its secret is used in unusual circumstances.
osv:CVE-2019-8336
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"title": "CVE-2019-8336",
"summary": "HashiCorp Consul (and Consul Enterprise) 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows a client to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain the privileges of one other arbitrary token within secondary datacenters, because a token with literally \"\" as its secret is used in unusual circumstances.",
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"GO-2023-1945"
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:52:45.911265854Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 383796,
"published_at": "2019-03-05T23:29:02.863+00:00"
}