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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-30255

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

Envoy is a cloud-native, open-source edge, and service proxy. In the github.com/envoyproxy/envoy package versions through v1.26.7, v1.27.x through v1.27.3, v1.28.x through v1.28.1, and v1.29.x through v1.29.2, the Envoy HTTP/2 protocol stack is vulnerable to the "HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood" vulnerability via the "nghttp2" component. Envoy's HTTP/2 codec allows the client to send an unlimited number of "CONTINUATION" frames even after exceeding Envoy's header map limits. This allows an attacker to send a sequence of "CONTINUATION" frames without the "END_HEADERS" bit set causing CPU utilization, consuming approximately 1 core per 300Mbit/s of traffic, and culminating in Denial of Service through CPU exhaustion. Users should upgrade to one of the fixed versions to mitigate the effects of the "CONTINUATION" flood. As a workaround, it's also possible to disable the HTTP/2 protocol for downstream connections.

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

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published