Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-32781  

Envoy, as used by Istio before version 1.11.1, contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability that affects Envoy’s decompressor, json-transcoder or grpc-web extensions or proprietary extensions that modify and increase the size of request or response bodies. Modifying and increasing the size of the body in an Envoy extension beyond the internal buffer size could lead to Envoy accessing deallocated memory and terminating abnormally.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

Envoy, as used by Istio before version 1.11.1, contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability that affects Envoy’s decompressor, json-transcoder or grpc-web extensions or proprietary extensions that modify and increase the size of request or response bodies. Modifying and increasing the size of the body in an Envoy extension beyond the internal buffer size could lead to Envoy accessing deallocated memory and terminating abnormally.

AVG-2321 istio 1.11.0-1 High Vulnerable

https://istio.io/latest/news/security/istio-security-2021-008/#cve-2021-32781