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TI-2024-30772 Aliases CVE-2024-45806

Potential manipulate `x-envoy` headers from external sources in envoy

Priority HIGH 68CWE-639Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · Low · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-639.

Summary

Envoy is a cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy. A security vulnerability in Envoy allows external clients to manipulate Envoy headers, potentially leading to unauthorized access or other malicious actions within the mesh. This issue arises due to Envoy's default configuration of internal trust boundaries, which considers all RFC1918 private address ranges as internal. The default behavior for handling internal addresses in Envoy has been changed. Previously, RFC1918 IP addresses were automatically considered internal, even if the internal_address_config was empty. The default configuration of Envoy will continue to trust internal addresses while in this release and it will not trust them by default in next release. If you have tooling such as probes on your private network which need to be treated as trusted (e.g. changing arbitrary x-envoy headers) please explicitly include those addresses or CIDR ranges into `internal_address_config`. Successful exploitation could allow attackers to bypass security controls, access sensitive data, or disrupt services within the mesh, like Istio. This issue has been addressed in versions 1.31.2, 1.30.6, 1.29.9, and 1.28.7. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00375 31st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed envoy (envoyproxy): 1.31.2, 1.30.6, 1.29.9 +1Red Hat: 2 advisories

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
envoyproxyenvoy1.31.0 to before 1.31.2; 1.30.0 to before 1.30.6; 1.29.0 to before 1.29.9; before 1.28.71.31.2, 1.30.6, 1.29.9, 1.28.7Patch availableCNA
  • envoy Vendorenvoyproxy Affected 1.31.0 to before 1.31.2; 1.30.0 to before 1.30.6; 1.29.0 to before 1.29.9; before 1.28.7 Fixed in 1.31.2, 1.30.6, 1.29.9, 1.28.7 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 1.28.7; 1.29.0 to before 1.29.9; 1.30.0 to before 1.30.6; 1.31.0 to before 1.31.2Vulnerableenvoyproxy
  • cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 1.28.7; 1.29.0 to before 1.29.9; 1.30.0 to before 1.30.6; 1.31.0 to before 1.31.2 Vulnerable ·envoyproxy

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA envoy (envoyproxy) Fixed in 1.31.2, 1.30.6, 1.29.9, 1.28.7

Red Hat 2 advisories

  • RHSA-2024:7725 Released 2024-10-07 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh Containers for 2.5.5
    • RHOSSM 2.5 for RHEL 8 openshift-service-mesh/grafana-rhel8, openshift-service-mesh/istio-cni-rhel8, openshift-service-mesh/istio-must-gather-rhel8 +5
  • RHSA-2024:7726 Released 2024-10-07 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh Containers for 2.6.2
    • RHOSSM 2.6 for RHEL 8 openshift-service-mesh/grafana-rhel8, openshift-service-mesh/istio-cni-rhel8, openshift-service-mesh/istio-must-gather-rhel8 +6
    • RHOSSM 2.6 for RHEL 9 openshift-service-mesh/proxyv2-rhel9

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
RHOSSM 2.5 for RHEL 8Fixed RHSA-2024:7725
RHOSSM 2.6 for RHEL 8Fixed RHSA-2024:7726
RHOSSM 2.6 for RHEL 9Fixed RHSA-2024:7726

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-45806

References

  • TI-2026-79288 Out-of-bounds write in Google Brotli decoder KEVCVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2
  • TI-2023-23979 The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2024-20001 HTTP/2: CPU exhaustion due to CONTINUATION frame flood CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2024-18524 HTTP/2: memory exhaustion due to CONTINUATION frame flood CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2023-12215 Envoy client may fake the header `x-envoy-original-path` CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2023-18002 Envoy vulnerable to OAuth2 credentials exploit with permanent validity CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
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