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CVE-2021-37219

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-37219 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise versions up to 1.10.1. It allows non-server agents with a valid CA-signed certificate to access server-only functionality within the Raft RPC layer. This network-based vulnerability has low attack complexity and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation or public exploit code has been identified, and community discussion is minimal, organizations using affected versions should prioritize patching to versions 1.8.15, 1.9.9, or 1.10.2.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.8.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:consul:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
< 1.8.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:consul:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 1.9.0, < 1.9.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:consul:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
>= 1.9.0, < 1.9.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:consul:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 1.10.0, < 1.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:consul:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
63.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0115 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/hashicorp/consulFixed in: 1.10.2
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/hashicorp/consulFixed in: 1.9.9
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/hashicorp/consulFixed in: 1.8.15

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-ccw8-7688-vqx4high

HashiCorp Consul Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Sep 8, 2021
redhatCVE-2021-37219Moderate

consul: RPC layer allows non-server agents to access server-only functionality

Aug 26, 2021

References

discuss.hashicorp.com / t/hcsec-2021-22-consul-raft-rpc-privilege-escalation/29024
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202207-01
Third Party Advisory
hashicorp.com / blog/category/consul
ProductVendor Advisory