CVE-2021-43825

Use-after-free in Envoy

State
Published
Severity
6.1 Medium
Published
Feb 22, 2022
Updated
Apr 23, 2025
Reserved
Nov 16, 2021

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Description

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications. Sending a locally generated response must stop further processing of request or response data. Envoy tracks the amount of buffered request and response data and aborts the request if the amount of buffered data is over the limit by sending 413 or 500 responses. However when the buffer overflows while response is processed by the filter chain the operation may not be aborted correctly and result in accessing a freed memory block. If this happens Envoy will crash resulting in a denial of service.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
envoyenvoyproxy
  • < 1.18.6Affected
  • >= 1.19.0, < 1.19.3Affected
  • >= 1.20.0, < 1.20.2Affected
  • >= 1.21.0, < 1.21.1Affected

References

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