Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications. The default_validator.cc implementation used to implement the default certificate validation routines has a "type confusion" bug when processing subjectAltNames. This processing allows, for example, an rfc822Name or uniformResourceIndicator to be authenticated as a domain name. This confusion allows for the bypassing of nameConstraints, as processed by the underlying OpenSSL/BoringSSL implementation, exposing the possibility of impersonation of arbitrary servers. As a result Envoy will trust upstream certificates that should not be trusted.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2022-02-22T22:25:11

Updated: 2024-08-03T02:46:39.567Z

Reserved: 2021-11-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-21656

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-02-22T23:15:11.223

Modified: 2023-07-24T13:50:04.853

Link: CVE-2022-21656

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-02-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-21656 - Bugzilla