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.
The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.
The product allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.
| Link | Tags |
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| https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-c9g7-xwcv-pjx2 | issue tracking third party advisory |
| https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/bb95af848c939cfe5b5ee33c5b1770558077e64e | third party advisory patch |