Medium severity4.7NVD Advisory· Published May 12, 2026· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2026-5061

Description

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.

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Affected products

Hashicorp/Consul Templatellm-fuzzy
Range: <0.42.0
osv-coords
pkg:bitnami/consul
Range: >= 0.1.0, < 0.42.0

Patches

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References

discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-12-consul-template-vulnerable-to-sandbox-path-bypass-in-file-helper-through-symlink-attack/77414nvd

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