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CVE-2023-35945

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-35945 is a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Envoy and nghttp2, where specific HTTP/2 frame sequences can lead to memory leaks. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this with low attack complexity, potentially causing memory exhaustion and service disruption. While the vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion beyond a single media mention. Patches are available in Envoy versions 1.26.3, 1.25.8, 1.24.9, and 1.23.11.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.23.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.24.0, < 1.24.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.25.0, < 1.25.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.26.0, < 1.26.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.55.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nghttp2:nghttp2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0129 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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

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 (14)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 nghttp2 1.46.0-3 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 1.46.0-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 cmake 3.21.4-8 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 3.21.4-8
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 nodejs 16.20.2-2 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 16.20.2-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18339-16823Fixed in: 3.21.4-8
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17454-16823Fixed in: 16.20.2-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17464-17084Fixed in: 3.21.4-10
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17866-16823Fixed in: 18.17.1-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 cmake 3.30.3-6 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 3.21.4-10
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18338-16823Fixed in: 1.46.0-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 nodejs18 18.17.1-2 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 18.17.1-2
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/proxyv2-rhel8:2.3.6-4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.2 for RHEL 8Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/proxyv2-rhel8:2.2.10-3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.4 for RHEL 8Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/proxyv2-rhel8:2.4.2-7
View patch
github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2023-35945Important

envoy: HTTP/2 memory leak in nghttp2 codec

Jul 13, 2023
microsoft2023-Jul/CVE-2023-35945Important

Envoy vulnerable to HTTP/2 memory leak in nghttp2 codec

Jul 11, 2023

References

github.com / envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-jfxv-29pc-x22r
Vendor Advisory
github.com / nghttp2/nghttp2/blob/e7f59406556c80904b81b593d38508591bb7523a/lib/nghttp2_session.c
Product