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CVE-2020-12604 (GCVE-0-2020-12604)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-07-01 14:24 – Updated: 2024-08-04 12:04
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Summary
Envoy version 1.14.2, 1.13.2, 1.12.4 or earlier is susceptible to increased memory usage in the case where an HTTP/2 client requests a large payload but does not send enough window updates to consume the entire stream and does not reset the stream.
CWE
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References
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