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CVE-2020-13250

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-06-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise include an HTTP API (introduced in 1.2.0) and DNS (introduced in 1.4.3) caching feature that was vulnerable to denial of service. Fixed in 1.6.6 and 1.7.4.

Affected products

• HashiCorp Consul: from 1.2.0 before 1.6.6; from 1.7.0 before 1.7.4 — fixed in 1.6.6, 1.7.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: HashiCorp Consul 1.6.6, 1.7.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.6.6/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.7.4/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8023
• https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.6.6/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.7.4/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8023

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