CVE-2020-10739

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: June 2, 2020 at 12:22 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:48 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsIstioIstio

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

Istio 1.4.x before 1.4.9 and Istio 1.5.x before 1.5.4 contain the following vulnerability when telemetry v2 is enabled: by sending a specially crafted packet, an attacker could trigger a Null Pointer Exception resulting in a Denial of Service. This could be sent to the ingress gateway or a sidecar, triggering a null pointer exception which results in a denial of service. This also affects servicemesh-proxy where a null pointer exception flaw was found in servicemesh-proxy. When running Telemetry v2 (not on by default in version 1.4.x), an attacker could send a specially crafted packet to the ingress gateway or proxy sidecar, triggering a denial of service.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

1.4.0 ≤ v < 1.4.91.5.0 ≤ v < 1.5.4
Affected range stops below 1.4.9, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.5.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 1.4.9v < 1.5.4
Affected range stops below 1.4.9, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.5.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

CVSS

7.5HIGHredhat
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-476

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