Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

hashicorp/raft
main @ 14ec839
2
Fixes
0
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
0.0%
Coverage
Highlights
Auth Bypass: 2 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
raft.go: most-fixed (2 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.
1 high-severity fix in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Auth Bypass: Decommissioned or non-voting nodes can participate in Raft elections, potentially disrupting cluster consensus and causing denial of service if cluster membership verification is bypassed during vote request processing.
Auth Bypass: Removed cluster nodes can transition to the Candidate state and trigger disruptive leader elections upon heartbeat timeouts if they do not verify their configuration status prior to state transition.