CVE-2026-5061

mediumpriority · track · 10EPSS 0.002 · 4 %ileexploit · PoCEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · PoC

Likely / severe?

0.15% (4th) EPSS

CVSS 4.7 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-25

The consul-template library before version 0.42.0 is vulnerable to a sandbox path bypass in the file template helper that may allow reading an out-of-sandbox file. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-5061) is fixed in consul-template 0.42.0.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.7

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.14.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.14.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · security@hashicorp.comexploitability 1 · impact 3.6

v3.14.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-59US

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

0xmrma/CVE-2026-5061Consul Template validated where a symlink pointed during template evaluation, but its later dependency fetch read the original path. Retargeting the link between those operations turned an in-sandbox file reference into an out-of-sandbox file disclosure.PoC · poc_in_github

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Hashicorp Tooling0.1.0 → 0.42.0enisa_euvdEU
Bitnami consul0.1.0 → 0.42.0osvUSpkg:bitnami/consul

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

BIT-consul-2026-5061Consul-template vulnerable to sandbox path bypass in file helper via a symlink attack2026-05-14vendor · osvUS
The consul-template library before version 0.42.0 is vulnerable to a sandbox path bypass in the file template helper that may allow reading an out-of-sandbox file. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-5061) is fixed in consul-template 0.42.0.

also known as (3)

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2026-05-12modified 2026-06-17

references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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