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
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
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.