CVE-2022-39278CWE-400

Istio vulnerable to denial of service attack due to Golang Regex Library

High · published October 13, 2022

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
72.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Istio is an open platform-independent service mesh that provides traffic management, policy enforcement, and telemetry collection. Prior to versions 1.15.2, 1.14.5, and 1.13.9, the Istio control plane, istiod, is vulnerable to a request processing error, allowing a malicious attacker that sends a specially crafted or oversized message which results in the control plane crashing when the Kubernetes validating or mutating webhook service is exposed publicly. This endpoint is served over TLS port 15017, but does not require any authentication from the attacker. For simple installations, Istiod is typically only reachable from within the cluster, limiting the blast radius. However, for some deployments, especially external istiod topologies, this port is exposed over the public internet. Versions 1.15.2, 1.14.5, and 1.13.9 contain patches for this issue. There are no effective workarounds, beyond upgrading. This bug is due to an error in `regexp.Compile` in Go.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01426 · 72.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2022-10-13T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 OCT 00:00Z
    Istio vulnerable to denial of service attack due to Golang Regex Library
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