Ill-formed headers may lead to unexpected behavior in Istio
Istio is an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. In affected versions ill-formed headers sent to Envoy in certain configurations can lead to unexpected memory access resulting in undefined behavior or crashing. Users are most likely at risk if they have an Istio ingress Gateway exposed to external traffic. This vulnerability has been resolved in versions 1.12.8, 1.13.5, and 1.14.1. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2022-31045
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- 8 Nov 2026, 02:08 UTC · Revision 1
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Ill-formed headers may lead to unexpected behavior in Istio
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 9 Jun 2022, 20:55 UTC
Istio is an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. In affected versions ill-formed headers sent to Envoy in certain configurations can lead to unexpected memory access resulting in undefined behavior or crashing. Users are most likely at risk if they have an Istio ingress Gateway exposed to external traffic. This vulnerability has been resolved in versions 1.12.8, 1.13.5, and 1.14.1. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
osv:CVE-2022-31045
Complete source record
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