CVE-2021-32778

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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:1.19.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

15 Jun 2022, 15:49

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CPE cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:1.19.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

01 Sep 2021, 21:25

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CPE cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References (CONFIRM) https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-3xh3-33v5-chcc - (CONFIRM) https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-3xh3-33v5-chcc - Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.19.0/version_history/version_history - (MISC) https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.19.0/version_history/version_history - Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.8
v2 : 5.0
v3 : 7.5

24 Aug 2021, 21:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2021-08-24 21:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 13:55


NVD link : CVE-2021-32778

Mitre link : CVE-2021-32778

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-32778


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Products Affected

envoyproxy

  • envoy
CWE
CWE-834

Excessive Iteration