CVE-2024-45809

Jwt filter crash in the clear route cache with remote JWKs in envoy

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: September 19, 2024 at 11:34 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:54 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorEnvoy

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

Envoy is a cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy. Jwt filter will lead to an Envoy crash when clear route cache with remote JWKs. In the following case: 1. remote JWKs are used, which requires async header processing; 2. clear_route_cache is enabled on the provider; 3. header operations are enabled in JWT filter, e.g. header to claims feature; 4. the routing table is configured in a way that the JWT header operations modify requests to not match any route. When these conditions are met, a crash is triggered in the upstream code due to nullptr reference conversion from route(). The root cause is the ordering of continueDecoding and clearRouteCache. This issue has been addressed in versions 1.31.2, 1.30.6, and 1.29.9. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected

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

v < 1.29.9v < 1.30.6v < 1.31.21.29.0 ≤ v < 1.29.91.30.0 ≤ v < 1.30.61.31.0 ≤ v < 1.31.2
Affected range stops below 1.29.9, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.30.6, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.31.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

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

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-119CWE-476

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