CVE-2020-11767

Istio through 1.5.1 and Envoy through 1.14.1 have a data-leak issue

published April 15, 2020

CVSS
—
EPSS
2%
Percentile
78.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Istio through 1.5.1 and Envoy through 1.14.1 have a data-leak issue. If there is a TCP connection (negotiated with SNI over HTTPS) to *.example.com, a request for a domain concurrently configured explicitly (e.g., abc.example.com) is sent to the server(s) listening behind *.example.com. The outcome should instead be 421 Misdirected Request. Imagine a shared caching forward proxy re-using an HTTP/2 connection for a large subnet with many users. If a victim is interacting with abc.example.com, and a server (for abc.example.com) recycles the TCP connection to the forward proxy, the victim's browser may suddenly start sending sensitive data to a *.example.com server. This occurs because the forward proxy between the victim and the origin server reuses connections (which obeys the specification), but neither Istio nor Envoy corrects this by sending a 421 error. Similarly, this behavior voids the security model browsers have put in place between domains.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01818 · 78.6th percentile
Published
2020-04-15T01:05Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 APR 01:05Z
    Istio through 1.5.1 and Envoy through 1.14.1 have a data-leak issue
    cvelistv5