PT-2020-20256 · Envoy · Envoy

Piotr Sikora · Published 2020-07-01 · Updated 2024-03-06 · CVE-2020-8663

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Envoy versions 1.14.2, 1.13.2, 1.12.4 or earlier

Description The issue may cause Envoy to exhaust file descriptors and/or memory when accepting too many connections.

Recommendations For Envoy versions 1.14.2, 1.13.2, 1.12.4 or earlier, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent file descriptor and memory exhaustion. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

BIT-ENVOY-2020-8663

CVE-2020-8663

GHSA-V8Q7-FQ78-4997

OPENSUSE-SU-2022:0065-1

RHSA-2020:2798

RHSA-2020:2864

Affected Products

Envoy

References · 15

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-8663 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2022:0065-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-envoy-2020-8663 · Vendor Advisory
• https://envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.13.1/intro/version_history · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8663 · Security Note
• https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-v8q7-fq78-4997 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-35471 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8663 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1167073 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1173559 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12604 · Note
• https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/WUFXLLYPEPLGLE3CNOENBUDET76YJXPI · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12603 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12605 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180121 · Note