CVE-2019-18802

envoy: malformed request header may cause bypass of route matchers resulting in escalation of privileges or information disclosure

Published Dec 13, 2019 CVSS 3.1 · 9.8 Critical EPSS 2.5% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered in Envoy 1.12.0. An untrusted remote client may send an HTTP header (such as Host) with whitespace after the header content. Envoy will treat "header-value " as a different string from "header-value" so for example with the Host header "example.com " one could bypass "example.com" matchers.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-8507 An issue was discovered in Envoy 1.12.0. An untrusted remote client may send an HTTP header (such as Host) with whitespace after the header content. Envoy will treat "header-value " as a different string from "header-value" so for example with the Host header "example.com " one could bypass "example.com" matchers.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 2:02 AM
Reserved
Nov 7, 2019, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 13, 2019, 1:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:25 AM
Severity
Important
Public date
Dec 10, 2019, 6:00 PM