CVE-2020-8659

Impact

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0734
• https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-jwcm-4pwp-c2qv
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00025.html
• https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.13.1/intro/version_history