Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications. In affected versions Envoy does not restrict the set of certificates it accepts from the peer, either as a TLS client or a TLS server, to only those certificates that contain the necessary extendedKeyUsage (id-kp-serverAuth and id-kp-clientAuth, respectively). This means that a peer may present an e-mail certificate (e.g. id-kp-emailProtection), either as a leaf certificate or as a CA in the chain, and it will be accepted for TLS. This is particularly bad when combined with the issue described in pull request #630, in that it allows a Web PKI CA that is intended only for use with S/MIME, and thus exempted from audit or supervision, to issue TLS certificates that will be accepted by Envoy. As a result Envoy will trust upstream certificates that should not be trusted. There are no known workarounds to this issue. Users are advised to upgrade.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2022-02-22T22:30:12.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-23T19:01:32.824Z

Reserved: 2021-11-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-21657

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T02:46:39.291Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-02-22T23:15:11.277

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:45:10.227

Link: CVE-2022-21657

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-02-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-21657 - Bugzilla