CVE-2022-29225 HIGH

CVE-2022-29225: Zip bomb vulnerability in Envoy

Vendor Envoyproxy
Product envoy
Weakness CWE-400
Published June 9, 2022
Last update April 22, 2025

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Envoy is a cloud-native high-performance proxy. In versions prior to 1.22.1 secompressors accumulate decompressed data into an intermediate buffer before overwriting the body in the decode/encodeBody. This may allow an attacker to zip bomb the decompressor by sending a small highly compressed payload. Maliciously constructed zip files may exhaust system memory and cause a denial of service. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may consider disabling decompression.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 9, 2022 CVE published
April 22, 2025 Record updated