Consul Envoy Extension Downsteam Proxy Configuration By Upstream Service Owner

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  "id": "5e37bdabf8d716595bc83d4901f1e8edb83210dd9a967aa9a81a2e857bbd3ee3",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-2816",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Consul Envoy Extension Downsteam Proxy Configuration By Upstream Service Owner",
    "summary": "Consul and Consul Enterprise allowed any user with service:write permissions to use Envoy extensions configured via service-defaults to patch remote proxy instances that target the configured service, regardless of whether the user has permission to modify the service(s) corresponding to those modified proxies.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-2816",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2023-2816",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-consul-2023-2816",
        "CVE-2023-2816",
        "GHSA-rqjq-ww83-wv5c",
        "GO-2023-1828"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "GIT",
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                    "strategy": "StandaloneSingleVersion"
                  },
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                        "introduced": "1.15.1"
                      },
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                      }
                    ],
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                  },
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                        "introduced": "1.15.2"
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                  },
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                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:consul:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*",
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                        "introduced": "1.15.0"
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                      {
                        "fixed": "1.15.3"
                      }
                    ],
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                  },
                  {
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                      {
                        "introduced": "1.15.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.15.3"
                      }
                    ],
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                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.15.0",
            "1.15.1",
            "1.15.2"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-2816.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:39.458498317Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-16-consul-envoy-extension-downstream-proxy-configuration-by-upstream-service-owner/54525",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/2xxx/CVE-2023-2816.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2816",
        "https://github.com/hashicorp/consul"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-266"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "HashiCorp",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/2xxx/CVE-2023-2816.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2023-2816",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 507205,
  "published_at": "2023-06-02T22:43:34.553+00:00"
}