What is CVE-2020-13250?

CVE-2020-13250 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Consul, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-06-11.

How severe is CVE-2020-13250?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Hashicorp Consul

CVE-2020-13250

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.

EPSS: 0.029 (85.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Hashicorp Consul
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-13250?: CVE-2020-13250 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Consul, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-06-11.
How severe is CVE-2020-13250?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.