Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU30627

#VU30627 Infinite loop in Istio - CVE-2019-18817

Published: November 12, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU30627

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-2019-18817

CWE-ID: CWE-835

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerable software:
Istio

Software vendor:
Istio

Description

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

Istio 1.3.x before 1.3.5 allows Denial of Service because continue_on_listener_filters_timeout is set to True, a related issue to CVE-2019-18836.

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