High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Envoy 1.14.0. There is a remotely exploitable crash for HTTP2 Metadata, because an empty METADATA map triggers a Reachable Assertion.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-29258
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Envoy 1.14.0. There is a remotely exploitable crash for HTTP2 Metadata, because an empty METADATA map triggers a Reachable Assertion.
osv:CVE-2021-29258
Complete source record
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"https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-rqvq-hxw5-776j",
"https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-xw4q-6pj2-5gfg",
"https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy-setec/pull/230"
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