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Medium · 5.0 CVE-2025-66220 BIT-envoy-2025-66220EUVD-2025-201090GHSA-rwjg-c3h2-f57p

Envoy’s TLS certificate matcher for `match_typed_subject_alt_names` may incorrectly treat certificates containing an embedded null byte

Published Dec 3, 2025 · Updated Dec 3, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Envoy is a high-performance edge/middle/service proxy. In 1.33.12, 1.34.10, 1.35.6, 1.36.2, and earlier, Envoy’s mTLS certificate matcher for match_typed_subject_alt_names may incorrectly treat certificates containing an embedded null byte (\0) inside an OTHERNAME SAN value as valid matches.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
envoyproxy envoy >= 1.36.0, <= 1.36.2, >= 1.35.0, <= 1.35.6, >= 1.34.0, <= 1.34.10, <= 1.33.12 —

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 v1.34.4.2-1.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1357

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/envoyproxy/envoy >= 1.36.0, < 1.36.3 1.36.3 GHSA-rwjg-c3h2-f57p
Go github.com/envoyproxy/envoy >= 1.35.0, < 1.35.7 1.35.7 GHSA-rwjg-c3h2-f57p
Go github.com/envoyproxy/envoy >= 1.34.0, < 1.34.11 1.34.11 GHSA-rwjg-c3h2-f57p
Go github.com/envoyproxy/envoy < 1.33.13 1.33.13 GHSA-rwjg-c3h2-f57p

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