CVE-2024-34363 Envoy can crash due to uncaught nlohmann JSON exception

2024-06-0420:59:52

CWE-248

GitHub_M

github.com

envoy

crash

uncaught json

exception

library

utf-8

strings

serialized

cve-2024-34363

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

17.1%

JSON

Envoy is a cloud-native, open source edge and service proxy. Due to how Envoy invoked the nlohmann JSON library, the library could throw an uncaught exception from downstream data if incomplete UTF-8 strings were serialized. The uncaught exception would cause Envoy to crash.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "envoyproxy",
    "product": "envoy",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": ">= 1.30.0, <= 11.30.1",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": ">= 1.29.0, <= 1.29.4",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": ">= 1.28.0, <= 1.28.3",
        "status": "affected"
      }
    ]
  }
]