CVE-2021-32778: Excessive CPU utilization when closing HTTP/2 streams
envoyproxy · envoy
Affected: envoyproxy · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
Higher than 69% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
Envoy is an open source L7 proxy and communication bus designed for large modern service oriented architectures. In affected versions envoy’s procedure for resetting a HTTP/2 stream has O(N^2) complexity, leading to high CPU utilization when a large number of streams are reset. Deployments are susceptible to Denial of Service when Envoy is configured with high limit on H/2 concurrent streams. An attacker wishing to exploit this vulnerability would require a client opening and closing a large number of H/2 streams. Envoy versions 1.19.1, 1.18.4, 1.17.4, 1.16.5 contain fixes to reduce time complexity of resetting HTTP/2 streams. As a workaround users may limit the number of simultaneous HTTP/2 dreams for upstream and downstream peers to a low number, i.e. 100.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- envoyproxy · envoy>= 1.19.0, < 1.19.1; >= 1.18.0, < 1.18.4; >= 1.17.0, < 1.17.4; >= 1.16.0, < 1.16.5
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- Exploitation
- Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- envoyproxy
- Published
- August 2021
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