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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-28683

There is a remotely exploitable NULL pointer dereference and crash in TLS when an unknown TLS alert code is received.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.69%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.69%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in Envoy through 1.71.1. There is a remotely exploitable NULL pointer dereference and crash in TLS when an unknown TLS alert code is received.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.69% probability · 76th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-476
Affected
envoyproxy/envoy
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.