CVE-2026-87090

high

Assigned by CNA: hashicorp

Published 2026-09-10 · Modified 2026-09-10

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CVSS v3

8.3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.3

Description

Consul and Consul Enterprise are vulnerable to an authorization bypass in the catalog node-write path that may allow an authenticated attacker to delete another node's catalog registration and take over its node identity. An attacker with a token granting node-write permission on any single node name may exploit this issue if they can obtain the node ID of a node they do not control. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-87090) is fixed in Consul 2.0.4 and Consul Enterprise 1.21.18, 1.22.12 and 2.0.4.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

89%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-34-consul-vulnerable-to-an-authorization-bypass-in-the-catalog-node-write-path/77736

CWEs

CWE-863

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.