CVE-2019-9901 (GCVE-0-2019-9901)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-04-25 15:31 – Updated: 2024-08-04 22:01
VLAI
Summary
Envoy 1.9.0 and before does not normalize HTTP URL paths. A remote attacker may craft a relative path, e.g., something/../admin, to bypass access control, e.g., a block on /admin. A backend server could then interpret the non-normalized path and provide an attacker access beyond the scope provided for by the access control policy.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AC:H/AV:N/A:L/C:L/I:L/PR:N/S:C/UI:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2339 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2019-03-29 00:00
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