High severity · published Aug 24, 2021
CVE-2021-32780
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 transitions a H/2 connection to the CLOSED state when it receives a GOAWAY frame without any streams outstanding. The connection state is transitioned to DRAINING when it receives a SETTING frame with the SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS parameter set to 0. Receiving these two frames in the same I/O event results in abnormal termination of the Envoy process due to invalid state transition from CLOSED to DRAINING. A sequence of H/2 frames delivered by an untrusted upstream server will result in Denial of Service in the presence of untrusted **upstream** servers. Envoy versions 1.19.1, 1.18.4 contain fixes to stop processing of pending H/2 frames after connection transition to the CLOSED state.
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
1.18.0 before 1.18.4; 1.19.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32780
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-32780
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-j374-mjrw-vvp8
Vendor Advisory
https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.19.0/version_history/version_history
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