CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-10739
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-06-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
Istio 1.4.x before 1.4.9 and Istio 1.5.x before 1.5.4 contain the following vulnerability when telemetry v2 is enabled: by sending a specially crafted packet, an attacker could trigger a Null Pointer Exception resulting in a Denial of Service. This could be sent to the ingress gateway or a sidecar, triggering a null pointer exception which results in a denial of service. This also affects servicemesh-proxy where a null pointer exception flaw was found in servicemesh-proxy. When running Telemetry v2 (not on by default in version 1.4.x), an attacker could send a specially crafted packet to the ingress gateway or proxy sidecar, triggering a denial of service.
Affected configurations
• istio istio (>= 1.4.0 < 1.4.9)
• istio istio (>= 1.5.0 < 1.5.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10739 Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/istio/envoy/commit/8788a3cf255b647fd14e6b5e2585abaaedb28153#diff-fcf2cf5dd389b5285f882ba4a8708633 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://istio.io/news/security/istio-security-2020-005/ Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10739 Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/istio/envoy/commit/8788a3cf255b647fd14e6b5e2585abaaedb28153#diff-fcf2cf5dd389b5285f882ba4a8708633 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://istio.io/news/security/istio-security-2020-005/ Mitigation, Vendor Advisory