Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
envoyproxy/go-control-plane
main @ 1d42a3e
6
Fixes
0
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
50.0%
Coverage
Highlights
Auth Bypass: 3 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
envoy/config/rbac: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
4 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Denial of Service: Unmanaged goroutine lifecycles during delta stream handling can cause substantial goroutine and channel leaks, leading to memory exhaustion and server crashes. Ensuring proper select blocks on context cancellation and closing channels during shutdown is critical.
Auth Bypass: Unvalidated or unspecified action enums inside Envoy RBAC configuration payloads can bypass access controls if the control plane does not strictly validate protobuf fields before applying configuration.
Denial of Service: Unsafe reflection-based interface assertions on nil or unmapped responses in the State-of-the-World (SotW) xDS server can trigger unhandled panic conditions, allowing remote attackers to crash the control plane.