CVE-2021-32779
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-08-24 20:45
Modified
2024-08-03 23:33
Severity ?
8.6 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
Incorrectly handling of URI '#fragment' element as part of the path element
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-r222-74fw-jqr9Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.19.0/version_history/version_historyVendor Advisory
Impacted products
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