Vulnerability · Published Mar 4, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-8659

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.9% (higher than 80% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High

Exploit odds (30 days)1.9%top 20.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.13.1/intro/version_history x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-jwcm-4pwp-c2qv x_refsource_MISC
RHSA-2020:0734 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
[debian-lts-announce] 20220518 [SECURITY] [DLA 3014-1] elog security update mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST