CVE-2024-34362 Envoy affected by a crash (use-after-free) in EnvoyQuicServerStream

What is CVE-2024-34362?

CVE-2024-34362 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Envoyproxy Envoy, published on 4 Jun 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Envoy is a cloud-native, open source edge and service proxy. There is a use-after-free in `HttpConnectionManager` (HCM) with `EnvoyQuicServerStream` that can crash Envoy. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a request without `FIN`, then a `RESET_STREAM` frame, and then after receiving the response, closing the connection.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-34362?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including envoy. It affects 1 product.

Products include Envoyproxy Envoy.

How do I fix CVE-2024-34362?

Upgrade envoy to a fixed version for your release line: 1.27.6, 1.28.4, 1.29.5 or 1.30.2.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2024-34362 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-34362 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in Envoyproxy Envoy

• CVE-2022-29226 Trivial authentication bypass in Envoy Critical 10.0
• CVE-2019-18801 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-18802 Security feature bypass in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-35470 Information disclosure in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2024-23324 Envoy ext auth can be bypassed when Proxy protocol filter sets invalid UTF-8 metadata High 8.6

All Envoyproxy Envoy vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-envoy-2024-34362, GHSA-hww5-43gv-35jv.