CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-18817

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Nov 12, 2019 | Modified: Nov 14, 2019

CVSS 3.x

7.5

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.x

5 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18817
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/835.html

Istio 1.3.x before 1.3.5 allows Denial of Service because continue_on_listener_filters_timeout is set to True, a related issue to CVE-2019-18836.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Istio	Istio	1.3 (including)	1.3.5 (excluding)

References

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