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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2023-27491 EUVD-2023-31256

Envoy forwards invalid Http2/Http3 downstream headers

Published Apr 4, 2023 · Updated Feb 11, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Compliant HTTP/1 service should reject malformed request lines. Prior to versions 1.26.0, 1.25.3, 1.24.4, 1.23.6, and 1.22.9, There is a possibility that non compliant HTTP/1 service may allow malformed requests, potentially leading to a bypass of security policies. This issue is fixed in versions 1.26.0, 1.25.3, 1.24.4, 1.23.6, and 1.22.9.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
envoyproxy envoy >= 1.25.0, < 1.25.3, >= 1.24.0, < 1.24.4, >= 1.23.0, < 1.23.6, < 1.22.9 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 ecs-service-connect-agent v1.25.4.0-1.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-165

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 8 istio +1 1.15.7-1.el8 ELSA-2023-12356, ELSA-2023-12354
Oracle Linux 8 kubeadm +2 1.24.8-2.el8 ELSA-2023-12356, ELSA-2023-12354
Oracle Linux 8 olcne-rook-chart +4 1.6.1-9.el8 ELSA-2023-23648, ELSA-2023-12354
Oracle Linux 8 olcnectl +11 1.5.12-6.el8 ELSA-2023-12356, ELSA-2023-12354
Oracle Linux 7 istio +1 1.15.7-1.el7 ELSA-2023-12357, ELSA-2023-12355
Oracle Linux 7 kubeadm +2 1.24.8-2.el7 ELSA-2023-12357, ELSA-2023-12355
Oracle Linux 7 olcne-rook-chart +4 1.6.1-9.el7 ELSA-2023-23649, ELSA-2023-12355
Oracle Linux 7 olcnectl +11 1.5.12-6.el7 ELSA-2023-12357, ELSA-2023-12355

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