Upon receiving each incoming request header data, Envoy will iterate over existing request headers to verify that the total size of the headers stays below a maximum limit. The implementation in versions 1.10.0 through 1.11.1 for HTTP/1.x traffic and all versions of Envoy for HTTP/2 traffic had O(n^2) performance characteristics. A remote attacker may craft a request that stays below the maximum request header size but consists of many thousands of small headers to consume CPU and result in a denial-of-service attack.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-10-09T15:25:02

Updated: 2024-08-05T00:42:01.230Z

Reserved: 2019-08-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-15226

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-10-09T16:15:14.687

Modified: 2019-10-17T17:03:07.697

Link: CVE-2019-15226

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-15226 - Bugzilla