Is CVE-2026-88021 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-88021?

CVE-2026-88021 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7.1).

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CVE-2026-88021

Description

Consul and Consul Enterprise are vulnerable to an authorization bypass in the Connect service mesh that may allow a service to reach a destination it is not authorized to access. When building Envoy RBAC rules to enforce Connect intentions, Consul did not correctly escape certain characters in service names, namespaces, and partitions, causing the generated authorization rules to match more broadly than intended. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-88021) is fixed in Consul 2.0.4 and Consul Enterprise 1.21.18, 1.22.12 and 2.0.4.