CVE 6.5 MEDIUM

Envoy Lua filter use-after-free when oversized rewritten response body causes crash_CVE-2025-62504

6.5 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy. Envoy versions earlier than 1.36.2, 1.35.6, 1.34.10, and 1.33.12 contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the Lua filter. When a Lua script executing in the response phase rewrites a response body so that its size exceeds the configured per_connection_buffer_limit_bytes (default 1MB), Envoy generates a local reply whose headers override the original response headers, leaving dangling references and causing a crash. This results in denial of service. Updating to versions 1.36.2, 1.35.6, 1.34.10, or 1.33.12 fixes the issue. Increasing per_connection_buffer_limit_bytes (and for HTTP/2 the initial_stream_window_size) or increasing per_request_buffer_limit_bytes / request_body_buffer_limit can reduce the likelihood of triggering the condition but does not correct the underlying memory safety flaw.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-62504
Source GitHub_M
Published Oct 16, 2025 at 21:23

Affected Product

Vendor envoyproxy
Product envoy
Version >= 1.36.0, <= 1.36.1
Affected Versions envoyproxy envoy >= 1.36.0, <= 1.36.1
envoyproxy envoy >= 1.350, <= 1.35.5
envoyproxy envoy >= 1.34.0, <= 1.34.9
envoyproxy envoy <= 1.33.11

CWE Classification

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