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CVE-2024-23324

Envoy ext auth can be bypassed when Proxy protocol filter sets invalid UTF-8 metadata

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.29.1, 1.28.1, 1.27.3, 1.26.7
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Envoy is a high-performance edge/middle/service proxy. 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 issue has been addressed in released 1.29.1, 1.28.1, 1.27.3, and 1.26.7. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • envoyproxy envoy

    From 1.29.0 · fixed in 1.29.1; From 1.28.0 · fixed in 1.28.1; From 1.27.0 · fixed in 1.27.3; fixed in 1.26.7

References 2

GitHub · envoyproxy/envoy