CVE-2019-12995 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Istio versions prior to 1.2.2, where mishandling of access tokens can cause Envoy to crash with an "Epoch 0 terminated with an error" message due to a segmentation fault in jwt_authenticator.cc. This vulnerability carries a CVSSv3 score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity, leading to high availability impact without requiring user interaction or privileges. Despite its severity, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:istio:istio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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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 records are not available for this CVE.