Vulnerability CVE-2021-43825


Published: 2022-02-22   Modified: 2022-02-23

Description:
Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications. Sending a locally generated response must stop further processing of request or response data. Envoy tracks the amount of buffered request and response data and aborts the request if the amount of buffered data is over the limit by sending 413 or 500 responses. However when the buffer overflows while response is processed by the filter chain the operation may not be aborted correctly and result in accessing a freed memory block. If this happens Envoy will crash resulting in a denial of service.

Type:

CWE-416

(Use After Free)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Envoyproxy -> Envoy 

 References:
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/148de954ed3585d8b4298b424aa24916d0de6136
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-h69p-g6xg-mhhh

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