CVE-2019-25014 Null dereference in n/a

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

An attacker can cause a denial of service in Istio pilot by triggering a null pointer dereference via a specific HTTP request.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2019-25014?

CVE-2019-25014 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Jan 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A NULL pointer dereference was found in pkg/proxy/envoy/v2/debug.go getResourceVersion in Istio pilot before 1.5.0-alpha.0. If a particular HTTP GET request is made to the pilot API endpoint, it is possible to cause the Go runtime to panic (resulting in a denial of service to the istio-pilot application).

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-25014?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Istio Istio, Redhat Openshift Service Mesh.

How do I fix CVE-2019-25014?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2019-25014 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-25014 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

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