CVE-2026-14361

MEDIUM 4.7

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

CVSS Score

4.7

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

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.

CWE	CWE-59
Vendor	hashicorp
Product	tooling
Published	Jul 8, 2026
Last Updated	Jul 8, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Scope

Confidentiality

Integrity

Availability

Affected Versions

HashiCorp / Tooling

0.1.0 < 0.42.1

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

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

Credits

This issue was reported to HashiCorp by Mohamed Abdelaal (0xmrma).