CVE-2023-27493
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-04-04 19:46
Modified
2024-08-02 12:16
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
Envoy doesn't escape HTTP header values
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-w5w5-487h-qv8qExploit, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
envoyproxyenvoy
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