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CVE-2020-8659

Published: Mar 4, 2020Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-770
7.5HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
1.9%
Top 22.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
Not available

Description

CNCF Envoy through 1.13.0 may consume excessive amounts of memory when proxying HTTP/1.1 requests or responses with many small (i.e. 1 byte) chunks.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-770

Affected Products

cncf
oss-projectaka cncf envoy, cncf spire, cncf crossplane
envoyMixed
Cloud & SaaS
Red Hat Inc.
commercial·USaka redhat, red hat
Openshift Service MeshOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
debian
oss-project·GBaka debian gnu/linux
debian linuxOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения
oss-projectaka fsf
EnvoyLibraryLibrary
OSS Libraries / web-framework
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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MITRE ATT&CK

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References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0734
access.redhat.com
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-jwcm-4pwp-c2qv
github.com
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00025.html
lists.debian.org
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