Vulnerability in Istio

CVE-2019-14993

Istio before 1.1.13 and 1.2.x before 1.2.4 mishandles regular expressions for long URIs, leading to a denial of service during use of the JWT, VirtualService, HTTPAPISpecBinding, or QuotaSpecBinding API.

EPSS: 0.023 (81.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

  • Istio
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-14993?
CVE-2019-14993 is a high-severity vulnerability in Istio, classified under Incorrect Regular Expression. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-08-13.
How severe is CVE-2019-14993?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2019-14993 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.