7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2021-29258

Published: 20/05/2021 Updated: 27/05/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

An issue exists in Envoy 1.14.0. There is a remotely exploitable crash for HTTP2 Metadata, because an empty METADATA map triggers a Reachable Assertion.

Vulnerability Trend

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envoyproxy envoy 1.14.6

envoyproxy envoy 1.15.3

envoyproxy envoy 1.16.2

envoyproxy envoy 1.17.1

Vendor Advisories

A flaw was found in envoyproxy An attacker, able to craft an HTTP2 request that specifies an empty metadata map, can crash envoy resulting in a denial of service due to the null reference The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability ...
Envoy before version 1180, and subsequently Istio before version 193, contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability where an HTTP2 request with an empty metadata map can cause a crash ...