CVE-2023-35945
HIGHEnvoy < 1.23.11 - Denial of Service via HTTP/2 RST_STREAM and GOAWAY Frame Handling
Title source: llmDescription
Envoy is a cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy. Envoy’s HTTP/2 codec may leak a header map and bookkeeping structures upon receiving `RST_STREAM` immediately followed by the `GOAWAY` frames from an upstream server. In nghttp2, cleanup of pending requests due to receipt of the `GOAWAY` frame skips de-allocation of the bookkeeping structure and pending compressed header. The error return [code path] is taken if connection is already marked for not sending more requests due to `GOAWAY` frame. The clean-up code is right after the return statement, causing memory leak. Denial of service through memory exhaustion. This vulnerability was patched in versions(s) 1.26.3, 1.25.8, 1.24.9, 1.23.11.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-jfxv-29pc-x22r
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0111
EPSS Percentile
61.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-400
CWE-459
Status
published
Products (2)
envoyproxy/envoy
< 1.23.11
nghttp2/nghttp2
< 1.55.1
Published
Jul 13, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026