CVE-2019-15226
highpriority · attend · 53EPSS 0.645 · 99 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
Upon receiving each incoming request header data, Envoy will iterate over existing request headers to verify that the total size of the headers stays below a maximum limit. The implementation in versions 1.10.0 through 1.11.1 for HTTP/1.x traffic and all versions of Envoy for HTTP/2 traffic had O(n^2) performance characteristics. A remote attacker may craft a request that stays below the maximum request header size but consists of many thousands of small headers to consume CPU and result in a denial-of-service attack.
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affected products (17)
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references (11)
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- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/afc39bea36fd436e54262f150c009e8d72db5014cnnvd
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commits/mastercnnvd
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/issues/8520cnnvd
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-mxrr-6x92-4x7vPatchcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15226cnnvd
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/afc39bea36fd436e54262f150c009e8d72db5014enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commits/masterenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/issues/8520enisa_euvd
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