Bug 1802540 (CVE-2020-8661)

Summary:	CVE-2020-8661 envoy: Response flooding for HTTP/1.1
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	kconner, rcernich, security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	envoy 1.13.1	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A resource consumption vulnerability was found in the servicemesh-proxy in Envoy. An attacker could use pipelined requests to cause excessive amounts of memory to be used, possibly degrading or crashing the application.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2020-03-05 22:31:45 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	1802569

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-02-13 11:32:21 UTC

A vulnerability was found in Envoy version 1.13.0 or earlier may consume excessive amounts of memory when responding internally to pipelined requests.

Comment 3 Mark Cooper 2020-02-24 04:39:25 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: The Envoy Security Team

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-05 19:00:18 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 22:31:45 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-2020-8661

Comment 6 Mark Cooper 2020-03-08 22:19:35 UTC

External References:

https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-36cq-ww7h-p4j7