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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2019-18838 json

An issue was discovered in Envoy 1.12.0.

published 2019-12-13 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-8539

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Envoy 1.12.0. Upon receipt of a malformed HTTP request without a Host header, it sends an internally generated "Invalid request" response. This internally generated response is dispatched through the configured encoder filter chain before being sent to the client. An encoder filter that invokes route manager APIs that access a request's Host header causes a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in abnormal termination of the Envoy process.

Patch / fix

  • kiali service mesh 1.0 v1.0.8.redhat1-1.el7
  • servicemesh service mesh 1.0 1.0.3-1.el8
  • servicemesh-cni service mesh 1.0 1.0.3-1.el8
  • servicemesh-mixc service mesh 1.0 1.0.3-1.el8
  • servicemesh-mixs service mesh 1.0 1.0.3-1.el8
  • servicemesh-proxy service mesh 1.0 1.0.3-1.el8
  • servicemesh-galley service mesh 1.0 1.0.3-1.el8
  • servicemesh-citadel service mesh 1.0 1.0.3-1.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:4222

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-2019-18838 updated cvss 7.5

envoy: malformed HTTP request without the Host header may cause abnormal termination of the Envoy process

  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0 servicemesh 1.0.3-1.el8, servicemesh-cni 1.0.3-1.el8, servicemesh-mixc 1.0.3-1.el8, servicemesh-mixs 1.0.3-1.el8, servicemesh-proxy 1.0.3-1.el8, servicemesh-galley 1.0.3-1.el8, +9 more Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0 kiali v1.0.8.redhat1-1.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:4222

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

2.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-f2rv-4w6x-rwhc referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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