Resource exhaustion in envoy - CVE-2022-29225

 

Resource exhaustion in envoy - CVE-2022-29225

Published: June 10, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU64154
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29225
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

envoy
OpenShift Service Mesh
servicemesh-proxy (Red Hat package)
servicemesh (Red Hat package)
servicemesh-cni (Red Hat package)
servicemesh-operator (Red Hat package)
servicemesh-ratelimit (Red Hat package)
servicemesh-prometheus (Red Hat package)

How to mitigate CVE-2022-29225

Install updates from vendor's website.

envoy - update to 1.22.1
OpenShift Service Mesh - addressed in versions 2.0.10, 2.1.3
servicemesh-proxy (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 2.0.10-1.el8, 2.1.3-1.el8
servicemesh (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 2.0.10-1.el8, 2.1.3-1.el8
servicemesh-cni (Red Hat package) - update to 2.0.10-1.el8
servicemesh-operator (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 2.0.10-1.el8, 2.1.3-2.el8
servicemesh-ratelimit (Red Hat package) - update to 2.1.3-1.el8
servicemesh-prometheus (Red Hat package) - update to 2.23.0-7.el8

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