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CVE-2026-81516GHSA-67C9-F6V2-QV86

Steeltoe.Discovery.Consul: malformed 'secure' metadata aborts service instance lookup (DoS)

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.3.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Steeltoe is an open source project that provides a collection of libraries that helps users build cloud-native applications. From 4.0.0 until 4.3.0, ConsulDiscoveryClient constructs ConsulServiceInstance objects by parsing each registration's secure metadata with a strict Boolean conversion. A principal that can register a Consul service can supply a secure value other than true or false, causing the exception from one instance to abort construction of the entire instance list and make the targeted service undiscoverable. When GetAllInstancesAsync enumerates all services, one malformed instance can abort enumeration across every service. The outage persists until the offending registration is removed. This issue is fixed in version 4.3.0.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • SteeltoeOSS security-advisories

    From 4.0.0 · fixed in 4.3.0

  • Steeltoe.Discovery.ConsulNuGet

    From 4.0.0 · fixed in 4.3.0

References 3

GitHub · SteeltoeOSS/security-advisories

GitHub · SteeltoeOSS/Steeltoe