Duty Analyst: Joseph McCarthy

CVE-2025-66220

Published: 2025-12-03 19:15:58 | Last modified: 2025-12-05 15:44:27

MEDIUM CVSS 5.0
No EPSS data

Description

Envoy is a high-performance edge/middle/service proxy. In 1.33.12, 1.34.10, 1.35.6, 1.36.2, and earlier, Envoy’s mTLS certificate matcher for match_typed_subject_alt_names may incorrectly treat certificates containing an embedded null byte (\0) inside an OTHERNAME SAN value as valid matches.

CVSS details

Severity
medium
Score
5.0
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

EPSS

This CVE is not currently listed in the EPSS dataset.

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