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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-18838

An issue was discovered in Envoy 1.12.0. Upon receipt of a malformed HTTP request without a Host header, it sends an internally generated "Invalid request" response. This internally generated response is dispatched through the configured encoder filter chain before being sent to the client. An encoder filter that invokes route manager APIs that access a request's Host header causes a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in abnormal termination of the Envoy process.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:38 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-18838

core-osv · Original source

Published 13 Dec 2019, 13:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in Envoy 1.12.0. Upon receipt of a malformed HTTP request without a Host header, it sends an internally generated "Invalid request" response. This internally generated response is dispatched through the configured encoder filter chain before being sent to the client. An encoder filter that invokes route manager APIs that access a request's Host header causes a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in abnormal termination of the Envoy process.

osv:CVE-2019-18838
Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:50.703738753Z",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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