#VU88181 Resource exhaustion in envoy - CVE-2024-30255

Vulnerability identifier: #VU88181

Vulnerability risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-30255

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerable software:
envoy

Software vendor:
Cloud Native Computing Foundation

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient limitations placed on the amount of CONTINUATION frames that can be sent within a single HTTP/2 stream. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP/2 requests to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Install update from vendor's website.

• https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-j654-3ccm-vfmm