CVE-2026-15972 — Unauthenticated denial of service via unbounded external gRPC connection acceptance
Consul Community Edition and Consul Enterprise 1.13.0 through 2.0.2 are vulnerable to an unauthenticated denial of service through unbounded connection acceptance on the externa…
Published: 2026-08-07 · CVSS: 7.5 · CVSS 3.1
Consul Community Edition and Consul Enterprise 1.13.0 through 2.0.2 are vulnerable to an unauthenticated denial of service through unbounded connection acceptance on the external gRPC listeners. A remote attacker may exhaust agent file descriptors, goroutines, and memory by opening many incomplete connections, potentially preventing legitimate clients from connecting. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-15972, is fixed in Consul 2.0.3 and Consul Enterprise 1.21.17, 1.22.11, and 2.0.3.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7