CVE-2021-32780

HIGH

Envoy 1.18.0-1.18.3 - Denial of Service via H/2 GOAWAY and SETTINGS Frame Sequence

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Envoy is an open source L7 proxy and communication bus designed for large modern service oriented architectures. In affected versions Envoy transitions a H/2 connection to the CLOSED state when it receives a GOAWAY frame without any streams outstanding. The connection state is transitioned to DRAINING when it receives a SETTING frame with the SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS parameter set to 0. Receiving these two frames in the same I/O event results in abnormal termination of the Envoy process due to invalid state transition from CLOSED to DRAINING. A sequence of H/2 frames delivered by an untrusted upstream server will result in Denial of Service in the presence of untrusted **upstream** servers. Envoy versions 1.19.1, 1.18.4 contain fixes to stop processing of pending H/2 frames after connection transition to the CLOSED state.

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 8.6
EPSS 0.0119
EPSS Percentile 63.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-754
Status published
Products (2)
envoyproxy/envoy 1.19.0
envoyproxy/envoy 1.18.0 - 1.18.4
Published Aug 24, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026