01 Record
CVE-2019-9901
Envoy 1.9.0 and before does not normalize HTTP URL paths. A remote attacker may craft a relative path, e.g., something/../admin, to bypass access control, e.g., a block on /admin. A backend server
MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base score6.5 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/AC:H/AV:N/A:L/C:L/I:L/PR:N/S:C/UI:N
02 Description
Envoy 1.9.0 and before does not normalize HTTP URL paths. A remote attacker may craft a relative path, e.g., something/../admin, to bypass access control, e.g., a block on /admin. A backend server
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.95% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 10.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2019-04-25 15:31Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 22:01Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-03-21
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 6.5)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AC:H/AV:N/A:L/C:L/I:L/PR:N/S:C/UI:N
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 7877bcad466baa26ac697eac6c3d36518ccfe56db76b89525e83d33ec06917ce
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.envoyproxy.iohttps://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.9.1/intro/version_history
- github.comhttps://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/issues/6435
- groups.google.comhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/envoy-announce/VoHfnDqZiAM
- github.comhttps://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-xcx5-93pw-jw2w