Bug 1660486 (CVE-2018-19653)

Summary:	CVE-2018-19653 consul: Misleading Configuration Resulting in Possible Plain Text Exposure
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-12-18 12:56:50 UTC

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.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5069

References:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/consul-tool/7TCw06oio0I

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-12-18 12:57:27 UTC

Created consul tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1660487]