CVE-2022-21656 (GCVE-0-2022-21656)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-02-22 22:25
Modified
2025-04-23 19:01
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation
Summary
Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications. The default_validator.cc implementation used to implement the default certificate validation routines has a "type confusion" bug when processing subjectAltNames. This processing allows, for example, an rfc822Name or uniformResourceIndicator to be authenticated as a domain name. This confusion allows for the bypassing of nameConstraints, as processed by the underlying OpenSSL/BoringSSL implementation, exposing the possibility of impersonation of arbitrary servers. As a result Envoy will trust upstream certificates that should not be trusted.
References
| ► | URL | Tags |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| envoyproxy | envoy |
Version: < 1.20.2 |
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