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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2024-23324

High
7.5/10

Summary

Envoy is a high-performance edge/middle/service proxy. In Envoy, external authentication can be bypassed by downstream connections. Downstream clients can force invalid "gRPC" requests to be sent to "ext_authz", circumventing "ext_authz" checks when "failure_mode_allow" is set to "true". This vulnerability affects github.com/envoyproxy/envoy package versions through 1.26.6, 1.27.0 through 1.27.2, 1.28.0, and 1.29.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published