Envoy up to 1.27.5/1.28.3/1.29.4/11.30.1 Mirror Response resource consumption

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Envoy up to 1.27.5/1.28.3/1.29.4/11.30.1. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Mirror Response Handler. Performing a manipulation results in resource consumption. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-34364. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Envoy up to 1.27.5/1.28.3/1.29.4/11.30.1. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown code of the component Mirror Response Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Envoy is a cloud-native, open source edge and service proxy. Envoy exposed an out-of-memory (OOM) vector from the mirror response, since async HTTP client will buffer the response with an unbounded buffer.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-34364 since 05/02/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Name

• Envoy

Version

• 1.27.0
• 1.27.1
• 1.27.2
• 1.27.3
• 1.27.4
• 1.27.5
• 1.28.0
• 1.28.1
• 1.28.2
• 1.28.3
• 1.29.0
• 1.29.1
• 1.29.2
• 1.29.3
• 1.29.4
• 11.30.0
• 11.30.1

License

• free

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