CVE-2026-14361

MEDIUM

Consul-template is vulnerable to path redirection in writeToFile through symlink attack

Title source: cna

Description

The consul-template library before version 0.42.1 is vulnerable to a path redirection issue in the writeToFile template helper that may allow template output to be written outside the intended directory or to overwrite an existing file. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-14361) is fixed in consul-template 0.42.1.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-20-consul-template-vulnerable-to-path-redirections-in-writetofile/77559

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7

EPSS 0.0010

EPSS Percentile 1.3%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-59

Status published

Products (1)

HashiCorp/Tooling 0.1.0 - 0.42.1

Published Jul 08, 2026

Tracked Since Jul 09, 2026