Vulnerability · Published Oct 28, 2025 · Assigned by HashiCorp

CVE-2025-11374Consul's KV endpoint is vulnerable to denial of service

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity resource allocation without limits in Consul from HashiCorp. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 37% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 63.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Gogithub.com/hashicorp/consul1.22.0GHSA-7g3r-8c6v-hfmr
Gogithub.com/hashicorp/consul1.22.0GO-2025-4081
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSconsulno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-11374

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
HashiCorp Consul 0 – before 1.22.0
HashiCorp Consul Enterprise 0 – before 1.22.0

Weakness: CWE-770 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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