CVE-2026-19014Uncontrolled resource consumption in the Consul Connect authorization endpoint

Description

Consul Community Edition and Consul Enterprise 1.17.0 through 2.0.2 are vulnerable to an uncontrolled resource consumption issue in the Connect authorization endpoint that may allow a caller to grow the agent's intention-match cache without bound, defeating the operator's cache-disable configuration. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-190124, is fixed in Consul 2.0.3 and Consul Enterprise 1.21.17, 1.22.11, and 2.0.3.

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

References and patches

• https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-25-multiple-vulnerabilities-impacting-hashicorp-consul/77629