A flaw was found under Istio Envoy which leads to Denial of service when using HTTP/2 protocol. In the basic form the attack submits a high number of requests, starving legitimate connections of CPU, causing either elevated latencies or request timeouts.

In more complicated production scenarios, Envoy is often integrated with sidecar services, such as rate limiter, ext_authz or WAF. Envoy may be
configured to fail open when a sidecar service times out, to prevent sidecar service outage from impacting user traffic. In this case the attack
may cause request timeouts to the sidecar services, and (if they fail open) the abusive requests reaching backend services.

The attack can be detected by observing elevated `downstream_rq_http2_total` or `downstream_rq_http3_total` counters without
a substantial increase in the `downstream_cx_active` counter. In some known forms of  attack the value of `downstream_rq_rx_reset` will be elevated,
while during other known forms of attack the `downstream_rq_5xx` or `downstream_rq_4xx` will be elevated.