Medium
Security advisory
HashiCorp Consul 0.5.1 through 1.4.0 can use cleartext agent-to-agent RPC communication because the verify_outgoing setting is improperly documented. NOTE: the vendor has provided reconfiguration steps that do not require a software upgrade.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-19653
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
HashiCorp Consul 0.5.1 through 1.4.0 can use cleartext agent-to-agent RPC communication because the verify_outgoing setting is improperly documented. NOTE: the vendor has provided reconfiguration steps that do not require a software upgrade.
osv:CVE-2018-19653
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:27.364562908Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2018-12-09T19:29:00.25+00:00"
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