# CVE-2021-28682: An issue was discovered in Envoy through 1.71.1.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-05-20 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in Envoy through 1.71.1. There is a remotely exploitable integer overflow in which a very large grpc-timeout value leads to unexpected timeout calculations.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases
- https://blog.envoyproxy.io
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/blob/15e3b9dbcc9aaa9d391fa8033904aad1ea1ae70d/api/envoy/api/v2/cluster.proto#L36

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