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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-18802

An issue was discovered in Envoy 1.12.0. An untrusted remote client may send an HTTP header (such as Host) with whitespace after the header content. Envoy will treat "header-value " as a different string from "header-value" so for example with the Host header "example.com " one could bypass "example.com" matchers.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:02 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-18802

core-osv · Original source

Published 13 Dec 2019, 13:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in Envoy 1.12.0. An untrusted remote client may send an HTTP header (such as Host) with whitespace after the header content. Envoy will treat "header-value " as a different string from "header-value" so for example with the Host header "example.com " one could bypass "example.com" matchers.

osv:CVE-2019-18802
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-18802",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "An issue was discovered in Envoy 1.12.0. An untrusted remote client may send an HTTP header (such as Host) with whitespace after the header content. Envoy will treat \"header-value \" as a different string from \"header-value\" so for example with the Host header \"example.com \" one could bypass \"example.com\" matchers.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-18802",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
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      "aliases": [
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      "metrics": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "GIT",
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                  "last_affected": "44f8c365a1f1798f0af776f6aa64279dc68f5666"
                }
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          "database_specific": {
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:52:30.507134486Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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        "https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commits/master",
        "https://blog.envoyproxy.io",
        "https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-356m-vhw2-wcm4"
      ],
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    },
    "related_cves": [
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 383675,
  "published_at": "2019-12-13T13:15:11.383+00:00"
}