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Envoy crashes when idle and request per try timeout occur within the backoff interval

Moderate
phlax published GHSA-6p83-mfmh-qv38 Feb 9, 2024

Package

Envoy Proxy (Envoy)

Affected versions

<1.29.1

Patched versions

1.29.1, 1.28.1, 1.27.3, 1.26.7

Description

Summary

Envoy will crash when certain timeouts happen within the same interval

Details

The crash occurs when the following are true:

  • hedge_on_per_try_timeout is enabled
  • per_try_idle_timeout is enabled (it can only be done in configuration)
  • per-try-timeout is enabled, either through headers or configuration and its value is equal, or within the backoff interval of the per_try_idle_timeout.

Impact

Denial of Service

Credits

herman@q42.nl

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE ID

CVE-2024-23322

Weaknesses

Credits