Critical
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-18802
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"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",
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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",
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 383675,
"published_at": "2019-12-13T13:15:11.383+00:00"
}