Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in envoy - CVE-2023-27492

 

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in envoy - CVE-2023-27492

Published: April 5, 2023 / Updated: April 6, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU74476
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-27492
CWE-ID: CWE-770
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 when a large request body is processed in Lua filter. A remote user can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

envoy
Amazon Linux AMI
Istio
OpenShift Service Mesh

How to mitigate CVE-2023-27492

Install updates from vendor's website.

envoy - addressed in versions 1.22.10, 1.23.7, 1.24.5, 1.25.4
Istio - addressed in versions 1.15.7, 1.16.4, 1.17.2
OpenShift Service Mesh - update to 2.2.9

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