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    "summary": "Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Hashicorp Consul\nHashiCorp Consul and Consul Enterprise include an HTTP API (introduced in 1.2.0) and DNS (introduced in 1.4.3) caching feature that was vulnerable to denial of service.\n\n### Specific Go Packages Affected\ngithub.com/hashicorp/consul/agent/config\n\n### Fix\nThe vulnerability is fixed in versions 1.6.6 and 1.7.4.",
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