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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2023-35944

Envoy allows mixed-case schemes in HTTP/2, however, some internal scheme checks are case-sensitive.

MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 0.70%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.70%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Envoy allows mixed-case schemes in HTTP/2, however, some internal scheme checks are case-sensitive. Prior to versions 1.27.0, 1.26.4, 1.25.9, 1.24.10, and 1.23.12, this can lead to the rejection of requests with mixed-case schemes such as `htTp` or `htTps`, or the bypassing of some requests such as `https` in unencrypted connections. With a fix in versions 1.27.0, 1.26.4, 1.25.9, 1.24.10, and 1.23.12, Envoy will now lowercase scheme values by default, and change the internal scheme checks that were case-sensitive to be case-insensitive. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

CVSS 3.1
5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS
0.70% probability · 53th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-20, CWE-444
Affected
envoyproxy/envoy
Source
security-advisories@github.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%27 October 2026: 0.70%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 0.7% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.