High severity · published Mar 4, 2020
CVE-2020-8661
CNCF Envoy through 1.13.0 may consume excessive amounts of memory when responding internally to pipelined requests
7.5
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
CNCF Envoy through 1.13.0 may consume excessive amounts of memory when responding internally to pipelined requests.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.9% · higher than 79% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EN
Envoy · Envoyproxy
through 1.13.0 · source: NVD
OS
Openshift Service Mesh · Redhat
1.0.9 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8661
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8661
Release Notes
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0734
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-36cq-ww7h-p4j7
Release Notes
https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.13.1/intro/version_history
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