High severity · published Aug 24, 2021
CVE-2021-32778
Envoy is an open source L7 proxy and communication bus designed for large modern service oriented architectures
7.5
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Envoy is an open source L7 proxy and communication bus designed for large modern service oriented architectures. In affected versions envoy’s procedure for resetting a HTTP/2 stream has O(N^2) complexity, leading to high CPU utilization when a large number of streams are reset. Deployments are susceptible to Denial of Service when Envoy is configured with high limit on H/2 concurrent streams. An attacker wishing to exploit this vulnerability would require a client opening and closing a large number of H/2 streams. Envoy versions 1.19.1, 1.18.4, 1.17.4, 1.16.5 contain fixes to reduce time complexity of resetting HTTP/2 streams. As a workaround users may limit the number of simultaneous HTTP/2 dreams for upstream and downstream peers to a low number, i.e. 100.
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)1.2% · higher than 69% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EN
Envoy · Envoyproxy
1.16.0 before 1.16.5; 1.17.0 before 1.17.4; 1.18.0 before 1.18.4; 1.19.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32778
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-32778
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-3xh3-33v5-chcc
Release Notes
https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.19.0/version_history/version_history
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