CVE-2026-81516CWE-755

CVE-2026-81516

High · published September 17, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
48.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Steeltoe is an open source project that provides a collection of libraries that helps users build cloud-native applications. From 4.0.0 until 4.3.0, ConsulDiscoveryClient constructs ConsulServiceInstance objects by parsing each registration's secure metadata with a strict Boolean conversion. A principal that can register a Consul service can supply a secure value other than true or false, causing the exception from one instance to abort construction of the entire instance list and make the targeted service undiscoverable. When GetAllInstancesAsync enumerates all services, one malformed instance can abort enumeration across every service. The outage persists until the offending registration is removed. This issue is fixed in version 4.3.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00609 · 48.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-755 · Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Published
2026-09-17T20:17Z
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 SEP 03:54Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 17 SEP 15:38Z
    Steeltoe.Discovery.Consul: malformed 'secure' metadata aborts service instance lookup (DoS)
    cvelistv5