CVE-2020-8659

Summary

CVECVE-2020-8659
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-03-04 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-09-30 22:56:00 UTC
DescriptionCNCF 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-770

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cncf Envoy All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openshift Service Mesh 1.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Excessive CPU and/or memory usage when proxying HTTP/1.1 · Advisory · envoyproxy/envoy · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
Version history — envoy tag-v1.13.1 documentation CONFIRM www.envoyproxy.io Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 3014-1] elog security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 179296 Debian Security Update for elog (DLA 3014-1)
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