Uncontrolled resource consumption in the Consul Connect authorization endpoint

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-19014",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Uncontrolled resource consumption in the Consul Connect authorization endpoint",
    "summary": "Consul Community Edition and Consul Enterprise 1.17.0 through 2.0.2 are vulnerable to an uncontrolled resource consumption issue in the Connect authorization endpoint that may allow a caller to grow the agent's intention-match cache without bound, defeating the operator's cache-disable configuration. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-190124, is fixed in Consul 2.0.3 and Consul Enterprise 1.21.17, 1.22.11, and 2.0.3.",
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              "repo": "https://github.com/hashicorp/consul",
              "type": "GIT",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:22.592050822Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-25-multiple-vulnerabilities-impacting-hashicorp-consul/77629",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/19xxx/CVE-2026-19014.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-19014",
        "https://github.com/hashicorp/consul"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
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                    "introduced": "1.17.0"
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                    "fixed": "1.21.17"
                  }
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 488664,
  "published_at": "2026-08-07T19:19:05.76+00:00"
}