Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-23326

Medium

Published: 04 June 2024

Published
04 June 2024
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0008 24.0th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-23326 is a medium-severity Unchecked Error Condition (CWE-391) vulnerability in Envoyproxy Envoy. Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 24.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Envoy is a cloud-native, open source edge and service proxy. A theoretical request smuggling vulnerability exists through Envoy if a server can be tricked into adding an upgrade header into a response. Per RFC https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7230#section-6.7 a server sends 101 when…

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switching protocols. Envoy incorrectly accepts a 200 response from a server when requesting a protocol upgrade, but 200 does not indicate protocol switch. This opens up the possibility of request smuggling through Envoy if the server can be tricked into adding the upgrade header to the response.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

envoyproxy
envoy
≤ 1.27.6 · 1.28.0 — 1.28.4 · 1.29.0 — 1.29.5

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-391

Ensures audit logging process failures are checked and trigger defined responses instead of remaining unchecked.

addresses: CWE-391

Policy enforces checking and handling of error conditions as part of incident response processes.

addresses: CWE-391

Testing IR effectiveness identifies and drives fixes for unchecked error conditions that fail to initiate incident handling.

addresses: CWE-391

Formal incident handling procedures enforce checking and acting on error conditions that could indicate security incidents.

addresses: CWE-391

Mandates ongoing correlation, analysis, and response to monitoring results, reducing unchecked error conditions from control assessments.

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