Resource Exhaustion Affecting servicemesh-proxy package, versions <0:1.0.9-2.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-SERVICEMESHPROXY-4400738
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed3 Mar 2020

Introduced: 3 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-8659  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 servicemesh-proxy to version 0:1.0.9-2.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:0734.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream servicemesh-proxy package and not the servicemesh-proxy package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

CNCF Envoy through 1.13.0 may consume excessive amounts of memory when proxying HTTP/1.1 requests or responses with many small (i.e. 1 byte) chunks.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1