CVE-2025-11374 json
Consul's KV endpoint is vulnerable to denial of service
published 2025-10-28 12 mo ago modified 2026-10-18 21 d ago also BIT-consul-2025-11374 , EUVD-2025-36559 , GHSA-7g3r-8c6v-hfmr , GO-2025-4081
- cvss
- 6.5
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.4%
- EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
Consul and Consul Enterprise’s (“Consul”) key/value endpoint is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) due to incorrect Content Length header validation. This vulnerability, CVE-2025-11374, is fixed in Consul Community Edition 1.22.0 and Consul Enterprise 1.22.0, 1.21.6, 1.20.8 and 1.18.12.
Patch / fix
- go github.com/hashicorp/consul 1.22.0
- bitnami consul 1.22.0
- HashiCorp Consul 1.22.0
- HashiCorp Consul Enterprise 1.18.12, 1.20.8, 1.21.6, 1.22.0
- govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1
- govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20251105T184115-1.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15710-1
- github.com/hashicorp/consul@72a358c commit
- github.com/hashicorp/consul#22916 pull request
- github.com/hashicorp/consul/releases/tag/v1.22.0 release
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2025-11374 updated cvss 6.5
github.com/hashicorp/consul: Consul's KV endpoint is vulnerable to denial of service
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Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/traefik-rhel8affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 12 mo ago
Exploit prediction
0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| GitHub | 3.1 | 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| OSV | 3.1 | 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Affected packages
| ecosystem | package | affected | fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| go | github.com/hashicorp/consul | <1.22.0 |
1.22.0 |
| bitnami | consul | <1.22.0 |
1.22.0 |
Affected products
- HashiCorp Consul
- HashiCorp Consul Enterprise
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
-
github.com
/hashicorp/consul/pull/22916
web, patch
-
github.com
/hashicorp/consul/commit/72a358cd02533477536ad4bd2b781f520fa7fac6
web, patch
-
discuss.hashicorp.com
/t/hcsec-2025-29-consuls-kv-endpoint-is-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service/76724
web, vendor-advisory, advisory
-
nvd.nist.gov
/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11374
advisory, web
-
github.com
/hashicorp/consul
package
-
github.com
/hashicorp/consul/releases/tag/v1.22.0
web
-
pkg.go.dev
/vuln/GO-2025-4081
web
-
github.com
/advisories/GHSA-7g3r-8c6v-hfmr
advisory
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-11374
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-7g3r-8c6v-hfmr
- NVD CVE-2025-11374
- OSV BIT-consul-2025-11374
- OSV GO-2025-4081
Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.
CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.