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CVE-2021-39162

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-39162 describes a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Pomerium, an identity-aware access proxy, and its underlying Envoy proxy. This flaw allows an untrusted upstream server to abnormally terminate the Envoy process by sending specific H/2 GOAWAY and SETTINGS frames simultaneously. Rated 8.6 HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H), the vulnerability is network-exploitable with low complexity, potentially leading to high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.18.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.19.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:1.19.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pomerium:pomerium:0.15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.6HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0164 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/pomerium/pomeriumFixed in: 0.15.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-gjcg-vrxg-xmgvhigh

Incorrect handling of H2 GOAWAY + SETTINGS frames

Sep 10, 2021

References

github.com / envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-j374-mjrw-vvp8
Third Party Advisory
github.com / pomerium/pomerium/security/advisories/GHSA-gjcg-vrxg-xmgv
Third Party Advisory
groups.google.com / g/envoy-announce/c/5xBpsEZZDfE/m/wD05NZBbAgAJ
Not ApplicableThird Party Advisory