Input validation error in Istio - CVE-2022-39278

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Input validation error in Istio - CVE-2022-39278

Published: October 19, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU68514
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-2022-39278
CWE-ID: CWE-20
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 insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

This vulnerability is caused by usage of an affected version of Go (#VU68390, CVE-2022-41715).


Affected software

Istio
OpenShift Service Mesh

How to mitigate CVE-2022-39278

Install updates from vendor's website.

Istio - addressed in versions 1.13.9, 1.14.5, 1.15.2
OpenShift Service Mesh - update to 2.3.1

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