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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2019-25014 json

A NULL pointer dereference was found in pkg/proxy/envoy/v2/debug.go getResourceVersion in Istio pilot before 1.5.0-alpha.0.

published 2021-01-29 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-11467

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A NULL pointer dereference was found in pkg/proxy/envoy/v2/debug.go getResourceVersion in Istio pilot before 1.5.0-alpha.0. If a particular HTTP GET request is made to the pilot API endpoint, it is possible to cause the Go runtime to panic (resulting in a denial of service to the istio-pilot application).

Patch / fix

  • servicemesh-proxy service mesh 1.1 1.1.13-1.el8
  • servicemesh-pilot-agent service mesh 1.1 1.1.13-3.el8
  • servicemesh-pilot-discovery service mesh 1.1 1.1.13-3.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2021:1322

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-25014 updated cvss 6.5

istio-pilot: requests to debug api can result in panic

  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1 servicemesh-pilot-agent 1.1.13-3.el8, servicemesh-pilot-discovery 1.1.13-3.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2021:1322
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1 servicemesh 1.1.13-3.el8, servicemesh-mixc 1.1.13-3.el8, servicemesh-mixs 1.1.13-3.el8, servicemesh-proxy 1.1.13-1.el8, servicemesh-galley 1.1.13-3.el8, servicemesh-citadel 1.1.13-3.el8, +2 more Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0 servicemesh, servicemesh-mixc, servicemesh-mixs, servicemesh-istioctl, servicemesh-pilot-agent, servicemesh-pilot-discovery
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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