High
Security advisory
HashiCorp Consul 1.4.0 through 1.5.0 has Incorrect Access Control. Keys not matching a specific ACL rule used for prefix matching in a policy can be deleted by a token using that policy even with default deny settings configured.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-12291
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
HashiCorp Consul 1.4.0 through 1.5.0 has Incorrect Access Control. Keys not matching a specific ACL rule used for prefix matching in a policy can be deleted by a token using that policy even with default deny settings configured.
osv:CVE-2019-12291
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-12291",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "CVE-2019-12291",
"summary": "HashiCorp Consul 1.4.0 through 1.5.0 has Incorrect Access Control. Keys not matching a specific ACL rule used for prefix matching in a policy can be deleted by a token using that policy even with default deny settings configured.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-12291",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
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"GHSA-h65h-v7fw-4p38",
"GO-2023-1852"
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:39.615433116Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5888"
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 381965,
"published_at": "2019-06-06T17:29:00.353+00:00"
}