CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-43824

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Feb 22, 2022 | Modified: Mar 01, 2022
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
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications. In affected versions a crafted request crashes Envoy when a CONNECT request is sent to JWT filter configured with regex match. This provides a denial of service attack vector. The only workaround is to not use regex in the JWT filter. Users are advised to upgrade.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Envoy Envoyproxy * 1.18.6 (excluding)
Envoy Envoyproxy 1.19.0 (including) 1.19.3 (excluding)
Envoy Envoyproxy 1.20.0 (including) 1.20.2 (excluding)
Envoy Envoyproxy 1.21.0 (including) 1.21.1 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References