Consul-template is vulnerable to path redirection in writeToFile through symlink attack
33Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 4.7epss 0.1%
from disclosure to weapon24 days
Published on NVDJul 8
1st PoC+24d
exploitation probability
0.1%top 99% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
HashiCorp · Toolingpublic PoCs found — 1
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