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GHSA-xwx5-5c9g-x68x
No affected components available
Impact
Ill-formed headers sent to Envoy in certain configurations can lead to unexpected memory access resulting in undefined behavior or crashing.
You are at most risk if you have an Istio ingress Gateway exposed to external traffic.
Patches
1.12.8, 1.13.5, 1.14.1
Workarounds
No.
References
More details can be found in the Istio Security Bulletin
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please email us at istio-security-vulnerability-reports@googlegroups.com
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is difficult for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability and may require special conditions. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.
Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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