GatewayApplication · Envoyproxy

CVE-2025-25294

MEDIUM · 5.3 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-03-06
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 1.2.7 / 1.3.1 or later.
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62/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Envoy Gateway is an open source project for managing Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway. In all Envoy Gateway versions prior to 1.2.7 and 1.3.1 a default Envoy Proxy access log configuration is used. This format is vulnerable to log injection attacks. If the attacker uses a specially crafted user-agent which performs json injection, then he could add and overwrite fields to the access log. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.3.1 and 1.2.7. One can overwrite the old text based default format with JSON formatter by modifying the "EnvoyProxy.spec.telemetry.accessLog" setting.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
GatewayApplication
Affected:< 1.2.7>= 1.3.0, < 1.3.1

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

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

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dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 1.2.7 / 1.3.1 or later
Fixed in 1.2.71.3.1
Vendor patch github.com →
Recommended fix High confidence

Upgrade to Envoy Gateway 1.2.7 or 1.3.1 (depending on your current version branch)

  1. 1. Identify the currently running Envoy Gateway version using 'kubectl get gateway -A' or 'kubectl get envoygateway -A'
  2. 2. If running version < 1.2.7, upgrade to version 1.2.7
  3. 3. If running version >= 1.3.0 and < 1.3.1, upgrade to version 1.3.1
  4. 4. Apply the upgrade using your Kubernetes package manager (e.g., helm upgrade or kubectl apply)
  5. 5. Verify the upgrade completed successfully by checking the Envoy Gateway pods are running the new version
  6. 6. Alternatively, as a configuration mitigation, modify the EnvoyProxy CRD spec.telemetry.accessLog setting to use a JSON formatter instead of the default text-based format to prevent log injection
Caveat Review Envoy Gateway release notes for any breaking changes between your current version and 1.2.7/1.3.1 before upgrading

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