CVE-2021-32779

highpriority · track · 33OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.009 · 61 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.95% (61st) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Envoy is an open source L7 proxy and communication bus designed for large modern service oriented architectures. In affected versions envoy incorrectly handled a URI '#fragment' element as part of the path element. Envoy is configured with an RBAC filter for authorization or similar mechanism with an explicit case of a final "/admin" path element, or is using a negative assertion with final path element of "/admin". The client sends request to "/app1/admin#foo". In Envoy prior to 1.18.0, or 1.18.0+ configured with path_normalization=false. Envoy treats fragment as a suffix of the query string when present, or as a suffix of the path when query string is absent, so it evaluates the final path element as "/admin#foo" and mismatches with the configured "/admin" path element. In Envoy 1.18.0+ configured with path_normalization=true. Envoy transforms this to /app1/admin%23foo and mismatches with the configured /admin prefix. The resulting URI is sent to the next server-agent with the offending "#foo" fragment which violates RFC3986 or with the nonsensical "%23foo" text appended. A specifically constructed request with URI containing '#fragment' element delivered by an untrusted client in the presence of path based request authorization resulting in escalation of Privileges when path based request authorization extensions. Envoy versions 1.19.1, 1.18.4, 1.17.4, 1.16.5 contain fixes that removes fragment from URI path in incoming requests.

remediations

Vendor fix, mitigation, or workaround guidance, as published by each source.

A vendor fix is available.

Fixedservicemesh-proxy-0:2.0.7-3.el8.ppc64le as a component of OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0redhat_csaf
The OpenShift Service Mesh Release Notes provide information on the features and known issues: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/service_mesh/v2x/servicemesh-release-notes.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3272
Fixedservicemesh-proxy-0:2.0.7-3.el8.s390x as a component of OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0redhat_csaf
The OpenShift Service Mesh Release Notes provide information on the features and known issues: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/service_mesh/v2x/servicemesh-release-notes.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3272
Fixedservicemesh-proxy-0:2.0.7-3.el8.src as a component of OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0redhat_csaf
The OpenShift Service Mesh Release Notes provide information on the features and known issues: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/service_mesh/v2x/servicemesh-release-notes.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3272
Fixedservicemesh-proxy-0:2.0.7-3.el8.x86_64 as a component of OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0redhat_csaf
The OpenShift Service Mesh Release Notes provide information on the features and known issues: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/service_mesh/v2x/servicemesh-release-notes.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3272
Fixedservicemesh-proxy-0:1.1.17-2.el8.ppc64le as a component of OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1redhat_csaf
The OpenShift Service Mesh Release Notes provide information on the features and known issues: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/service_mesh/v1x/servicemesh-release-notes.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3273
Fixedservicemesh-proxy-0:1.1.17-2.el8.s390x as a component of OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1redhat_csaf
The OpenShift Service Mesh Release Notes provide information on the features and known issues: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/service_mesh/v1x/servicemesh-release-notes.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3273
Fixedservicemesh-proxy-0:1.1.17-2.el8.src as a component of OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1redhat_csaf
The OpenShift Service Mesh Release Notes provide information on the features and known issues: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/service_mesh/v1x/servicemesh-release-notes.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3273
Fixedservicemesh-proxy-0:1.1.17-2.el8.x86_64 as a component of OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1redhat_csaf
The OpenShift Service Mesh Release Notes provide information on the features and known issues: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/service_mesh/v1x/servicemesh-release-notes.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3273

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.6

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.18.3highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Lprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.7

v3.18.6highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.18.6highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 4

v3.17.6highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.18.3highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Lsecondary · Red Hat Product Security US

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-697USprimaryCWE-551USCWE-863USCWE-863US

affected products (67)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

envoyproxy envoy1.16.0, → 1.16.5enisa_euvdEU
envoyproxy envoy1.17.0, → 1.17.4enisa_euvdEU
envoyproxy envoy1.18.0, → 1.18.4enisa_euvdEU
envoyproxy envoy1.19.0, → 1.19.1enisa_euvdEU
envoyproxy envoy1.16.0 → 1.16.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
envoyproxy envoy1.17.0 → 1.17.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
envoyproxy envoy1.18.0 → 1.18.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
envoyproxy envoy= 1.19.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami envoy1.16.0 → 1.16.5osvUSpkg:bitnami/envoy
Bitnami envoy1.17.0 → 1.17.4osvUSpkg:bitnami/envoy
Bitnami envoy1.18.0 → 1.18.4osvUSpkg:bitnami/envoy
Bitnami envoy1.19.0 → 1.19.1osvUSpkg:bitnami/envoy
servicemesh-0:1.1.17-3.el8.ppc64le as a component of OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1all versionsnot affectedredhat_csafUS
servicemesh-0:1.1.17-3.el8.s390x as a component of OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1all versionsnot affectedredhat_csafUS
servicemesh-0:1.1.17-3.el8.src as a component of OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1all versionsnot affectedredhat_csafUS
servicemesh-0:1.1.17-3.el8.x86_64 as a component of OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1all versionsnot affectedredhat_csafUS
servicemesh-0:2.0.7-3.el8.ppc64le as a component of OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0all versionsnot affectedredhat_csafUS
servicemesh-0:2.0.7-3.el8.s390x as a component of OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0all versionsnot affectedredhat_csafUS
servicemesh-0:2.0.7-3.el8.src as a component of OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0all versionsnot affectedredhat_csafUS
servicemesh-0:2.0.7-3.el8.x86_64 as a component of OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0all versionsnot affectedredhat_csafUS

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advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

RHSA-2021:3272Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0.7.1 security update2021-08-25csaf · redhat_csafUS
An update for servicemesh and servicemesh-proxy is now available for OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
RHSA-2021:3273Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1.17.1 security update2021-08-25csaf · redhat_csafUS
An update for servicemesh and servicemesh-proxy is now available for OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
BIT-envoy-2021-32779Incorrectly handling of URI '#fragment' element as part of the path element2024-03-06vendor · osvUS
Envoy is an open source L7 proxy and communication bus designed for large modern service oriented architectures. In affected versions envoy incorrectly handled a URI '#fragment' element as part of the path element. Envoy is configured with an RBAC filter for authorization or similar mechanism with an explicit case of a final "/admin" path element, or is using a negative assertion with final path element of "/admin". The client sends request to "/app1/admin#foo". In Envoy prior to 1.18.0, or 1.18.0+ configured with path_normalization=false. Envoy treats fragment as a suffix of the query string when present, or as a suffix of the path when query string is absent, so it evaluates the final path element as "/admin#foo" and mismatches with the configured "/admin" path element. In Envoy 1.18.0+ configured with path_normalization=true. Envoy transforms this to /app1/admin%23foo and mismatches with the configured /admin prefix. The resulting URI is sent to the next server-agent with the offending "#foo" fragment which violates RFC3986 or with the nonsensical "%23foo" text appended. A specifically constructed request with URI containing '#fragment' element delivered by an untrusted client in the presence of path based request authorization resulting in escalation of Privileges when path based request authorization extensions. Envoy versions 1.19.1, 1.18.4, 1.17.4, 1.16.5 contain fixes that removes fragment from URI path in incoming requests.

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published 2021-08-24modified 2026-06-17

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