CVE-2020-10739

HIGH

Istio 1.4.0-1.4.8 - Denial of Service via Telemetry v2 Packet Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Istio 1.4.x before 1.4.9 and Istio 1.5.x before 1.5.4 contain the following vulnerability when telemetry v2 is enabled: by sending a specially crafted packet, an attacker could trigger a Null Pointer Exception resulting in a Denial of Service. This could be sent to the ingress gateway or a sidecar, triggering a null pointer exception which results in a denial of service. This also affects servicemesh-proxy where a null pointer exception flaw was found in servicemesh-proxy. When running Telemetry v2 (not on by default in version 1.4.x), an attacker could send a specially crafted packet to the ingress gateway or proxy sidecar, triggering a denial of service.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10739
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://istio.io/news/security/istio-security-2020-005/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0233
EPSS Percentile 81.4%
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)
istio/istio 1.4.0 - 1.4.9
Published Jun 02, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026