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CVE-2020-15104

TLS Validation Vulnerability in Envoy

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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.12.6, 1.13.4, 1.14.4
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

In Envoy before versions 1.12.6, 1.13.4, 1.14.4, and 1.15.0 when validating TLS certificates, Envoy would incorrectly allow a wildcard DNS Subject Alternative Name apply to multiple subdomains. For example, with a SAN of .example.com, Envoy would incorrectly allow nested.subdomain.example.com, when it should only allow subdomain.example.com. This defect applies to both validating a client TLS certificate in mTLS, and validating a server TLS certificate for upstream connections. This vulnerability is only applicable to situations where an untrusted entity can obtain a signed wildcard TLS certificate for a domain of which you only intend to trust a subdomain of. For example, if you intend to trust api.mysubdomain.example.com, and an untrusted actor can obtain a signed TLS certificate for .example.com or *.com. Configurations are vulnerable if they use verify_subject_alt_name in any Envoy version, or if they use match_subject_alt_names in version 1.14 or later. This issue has been fixed in Envoy versions 1.12.6, 1.13.4, 1.14.4, 1.15.0.

Timeline

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Affected versions

  • envoyproxy envoy

    fixed in 1.12.6; From 1.13.0 · fixed in 1.13.4; From 1.14.0 · fixed in 1.14.4

References 1

GitHub · envoyproxy/envoy