Vulnerability · Published Feb 22, 2022 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2022-23606Crash when a cluster is deleted in Envoy

Medium 4.4

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in envoy from envoyproxy. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.0% (higher than 63% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.4Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.0%top 36.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications. When a cluster is deleted via Cluster Discovery Service (CDS) all idle connections established to endpoints in that cluster are disconnected. A recursion was introduced in the procedure of disconnecting idle connections that can lead to stack exhaustion and abnormal process termination when a cluster has a large number of idle connections. This infinite recursion causes Envoy to crash. Users are advised to upgrade.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
envoyproxy envoy >= 1.20.0, < 1.20.2>= 1.21.0, < 1.21.1

Weakness: CWE-674 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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