High
Security advisory
In Envoy through 1.11.1, users may configure a route to match incoming path headers via the libstdc++ regular expression implementation. A remote attacker may send a request with a very long URI to result in a denial of service (memory consumption). This is a related issue to CVE-2019-14993.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-15225
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:37 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Envoy through 1.11.1, users may configure a route to match incoming path headers via the libstdc++ regular expression implementation. A remote attacker may send a request with a very long URI to result in a denial of service (memory consumption). This is a related issue to CVE-2019-14993.
osv:CVE-2019-15225
Complete source record
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