CVE-2026-88021

HIGHPre-NVD 7.57.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under the CNA's CVSS (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.3% (26th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory CVSS 7.1 is lower than this score; a lower GitHub score revises it only when its advisory is newer than the CVE record's last change, and this advisory (published 2026-09-10) is not newer than that change (2026-10-02), so it does not.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from the CNA's CVSS
Sources: the CNA's CVSS, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory
Trending — 3 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-75700 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

7.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.3%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

The CVE record names the fixed release — apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
34
EG Risk 34/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity75% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.3% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: The CVE record names the fixed release. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.3%
EPSS %ILE
26th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.the CNA's CVSS · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
0.3% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-26). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

The CVE record names the fixed release. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

September 10, 2026

Last Modified

October 2, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Sep 10, 2026
Fix named in the CVE record.
Web page

HCSEC-2026-37 - Consul vulnerable to an authorization bypass in the Connect service mesh - Security - HashiCorp Discuss

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-37-consul-vulnerable-to-an-authorization-bypass-in-the-connect-service-mesh/77739

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-88021(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 85× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 159 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 59 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-27 12:27 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-27 12:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  3. 2026-10-26 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 26th percentile
  4. 2026-10-25 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 26th percentile
  5. 2026-10-25 13:53 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-24 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  7. 2026-10-23 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  8. 2026-10-22 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  9. 2026-10-21 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  10. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  11. 2026-10-19 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  12. 2026-10-19 13:57 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-19 13:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  14. 2026-10-18 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  15. 2026-10-18 03:03 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  17. 2026-10-16 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  18. 2026-10-15 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  19. 2026-10-14 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  20. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  21. 2026-10-13 05:05 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-13 05:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  23. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  24. 2026-10-12 14:49 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-11 21:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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  1. 2026-10-11 19:15 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-11 16:32 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  4. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-11 07:04 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-11 07:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  7. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  8. 2026-10-10 19:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  9. 2026-10-10 08:07 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-10 08:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  11. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  12. 2026-10-09 19:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  13. 2026-10-08 23:44 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-08 23:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  15. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  16. 2026-10-08 08:32 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-08 08:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  18. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  19. 2026-10-07 21:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  20. 2026-10-07 09:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  21. 2026-10-06 21:43 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-06 21:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  23. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  24. 2026-10-06 10:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  25. 2026-10-05 22:31 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-05 22:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  27. 2026-10-05 17:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  28. 2026-10-05 11:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  29. 2026-10-04 23:34 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-04 23:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  31. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  32. 2026-10-04 12:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  33. 2026-10-04 00:43 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-10-04 00:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  35. 2026-10-03 13:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  36. 2026-10-03 01:54 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-10-03 01:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  38. 2026-10-02 14:29 UTCEG score recompute▲ 0.40
  39. 2026-10-02 14:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  40. 2026-10-02 14:25 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 7.5
  41. 2026-10-02 12:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  42. 2026-10-02 00:22 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-10-02 00:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  44. 2026-10-01 19:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  45. 2026-10-01 12:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  46. 2026-10-01 01:23 UTCEG score recompute
  47. 2026-10-01 01:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  48. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  49. 2026-09-30 13:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  50. 2026-09-30 01:54 UTCEG score recompute
  51. 2026-09-30 01:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  52. 2026-09-29 11:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  53. 2026-09-29 00:21 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-09-29 00:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  55. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  56. 2026-09-28 12:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  57. 2026-09-28 01:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  58. 2026-09-27 14:05 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-09-27 14:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  60. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  61. 2026-09-27 02:26 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-09-27 02:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  63. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  64. 2026-09-26 15:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  65. 2026-09-26 02:49 UTCEG score recompute
  66. 2026-09-26 02:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  67. 2026-09-25 15:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  68. 2026-09-25 03:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  69. 2026-09-24 16:24 UTCEG score recompute
  70. 2026-09-24 16:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  71. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  72. 2026-09-24 04:59 UTCEG score recompute
  73. 2026-09-24 04:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  74. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 15th percentile
  75. 2026-09-23 17:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p3q-p26q-fxxc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-88021?
CVE-2026-88021 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 10, 2026. 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…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-88021 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-88021 was published on September 10, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 2, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-88021 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-88021 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (26th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-88021?
CVE-2026-88021 has a CVSS base score of 7.5 (the CNA's own assessment, by hashicorp; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-88021?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-88021 names the fix: "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." The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-88021 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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