CVE-2022-31045 - CVE House

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Status published High CVE-2022-31045

Ill-formed headers may lead to unexpected behavior in Istio

7 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

Istio is an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. In affected versions ill-formed headers sent to Envoy in certain configurations can lead to unexpected memory access resulting in undefined behavior or crashing. Users are most likely at risk if they have an Istio ingress Gateway exposed to external traffic. This vulnerability has been resolved in versions 1.12.8, 1.13.5, and 1.14.1. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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Affected Vendor

istio

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Affected Software

istio

Vulnerable Versions:

< 1.12.18, >= 1.13.0, < 1.13.5, >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.1

Timeline

Official Publish: June 9th, 2022

Last Modified: April 23rd, 2025

Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1213 Data from Information Repositories

T1003 OS Credential Dumping

Credential Access

T1552 Unsecured Credentials

Credential Access