Medium severity · published Jan 29, 2021
CVE-2019-25014
A NULL pointer dereference was found in pkg/proxy/envoy/v2/debug.go getResourceVersion in Istio pilot before 1.5.0-alpha.0
6.5
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A NULL pointer dereference was found in pkg/proxy/envoy/v2/debug.go getResourceVersion in Istio pilot before 1.5.0-alpha.0. If a particular HTTP GET request is made to the pilot API endpoint, it is possible to cause the Go runtime to panic (resulting in a denial of service to the istio-pilot application).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 71% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IS
Istio · Istio
through 1.4.9 · source: NVD
OS
Openshift Service Mesh · Redhat
1.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-25014
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-25014
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1919066
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/istio/istio/compare/1.4.2...1.5.0-alpha.0
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