hashicorp/consul ent-changelog-1.18.5

v1.18.5 (Enterprise)

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1.18.5 Enterprise (October 29, 2024)

This release is created to share the Consul Enterprise changelog and notify consumers of availability. The attached source and assets do not include Consul Enterprise code and should not be used in place of official Docker images or binaries.

Enterprise LTS: Consul Enterprise 1.18 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release.
BREAKING CHANGES:

• mesh: (Enterprise Only) Enable Envoy HttpConnectionManager.normalize_path by default on inbound traffic to mesh proxies. This resolves CVE-2024-10005.

SECURITY:

• Explicitly set 'Content-Type' header to mitigate XSS vulnerability. [GH-21704]
• Implement HTML sanitization for user-generated content to prevent XSS attacks in the UI. [GH-21711]
• Upgrade Go to use 1.22.7. This addresses CVE
  CVE-2024-34155 [GH-21705]
• Upgrade to support aws/aws-sdk-go v1.55.5 or higher. This resolves CVEs
  CVE-2020-8911 and
  CVE-2020-8912. [GH-21684]
• mesh: (Enterprise Only) Add contains and ignoreCase to L7 Intentions HTTP header matching criteria to support configuration resilient to variable casing and multiple values. This resolves CVE-2024-10006.
• mesh: (Enterprise Only) Add http.incoming.requestNormalization to Mesh configuration entry to support inbound service traffic request normalization. This resolves CVE-2024-10005 and CVE-2024-10006.
• ui: Pin a newer resolution of Braces [GH-21710]
• ui: Pin a newer resolution of Codemirror [GH-21715]
• ui: Pin a newer resolution of Markdown-it [GH-21717]
• ui: Pin a newer resolution of ansi-html [GH-21735]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• security: upgrade ubi base image to 9.4 [GH-21750]
• api: remove dependency on proto-public, protobuf, and grpc [GH-21780]
• xds: configures Envoy to load balance over all instances of an external service configured with hostnames when "envoy_dns_discovery_type" is set to "STRICT_DNS" [GH-21655]

BUG FIXES:

• jwt-provider: change dns lookup family from the default of AUTO which would prefer ipv6 to ALL if LOGICAL_DNS is used or PREFER_IPV4 if STRICT_DNS is used to gracefully handle transitions to ipv6. [GH-21703]