CVE-2019-18838

HIGH

Envoy < 1.12.1 - Denial of Service via NULL Pointer Dereference in Host Header Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Envoy 1.12.0. Upon receipt of a malformed HTTP request without a Host header, it sends an internally generated "Invalid request" response. This internally generated response is dispatched through the configured encoder filter chain before being sent to the client. An encoder filter that invokes route manager APIs that access a request's Host header causes a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in abnormal termination of the Envoy process.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Product x_refsource_misc
https://blog.envoyproxy.io
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-f2rv-4w6x-rwhc

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0214
EPSS Percentile 79.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (1)
envoyproxy/envoy < 1.12.1
Published Dec 13, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026