Bug 1802539 (CVE-2020-8659)

Summary: CVE-2020-8659 envoy: Excessive CPU and/or memory usage when proxying HTTP/1.1
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Fixed In Version: envoy 1.13.1 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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A resource consumption vulnerability was found in the servicemesh-proxy in Envoy. An attacker could send specially crafted small HTTP/1.1 packets that, when processed, could cause excessive amounts of memory to be used, possibly degrading or crashing the application.
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-02-13 11:29:52 UTC
A vulnerability was found in Envoy version 1.13.0 or earlier may consume excessive amounts of memory
when proxying HTTP/1.1 requests or responses with many small (i.e. 1 byte) chunks.

Comment 3 Mark Cooper 2020-02-24 04:34:27 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: The Envoy Security Team

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-05 19:00:15 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0

Via RHSA-2020:0734 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0734

Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-03-05 22:31:43 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-8659

Comment 6 Mark Cooper 2020-03-08 22:16:52 UTC
External References:

https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-jwcm-4pwp-c2qv