CVE-2019-14993

moderate-risk
Published 2019-08-13

Istio before 1.1.13 and 1.2.x before 1.2.4 mishandles regular expressions for long URIs, leading to a denial of service during use of the JWT, VirtualService, HTTPAPISpecBinding, or QuotaSpecBinding API.

Do I need to act?

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0.65% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Istio

References (8)

Vendor Advisory https://discuss.istio.io/t/upcoming-security-updates-in-istio-1-2-4-and-1-1-13/3...
Exploit https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86164
Exploit https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/issues/7728
Vendor Advisory https://istio.io/blog/2019/istio-security-003-004/
Vendor Advisory https://discuss.istio.io/t/upcoming-security-updates-in-istio-1-2-4-and-1-1-13/3...
Exploit https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86164
Exploit https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/issues/7728
Vendor Advisory https://istio.io/blog/2019/istio-security-003-004/
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal