CRE-2025-0203

Envoy Proxy Crash Due to Assertion FailureCritical

Impact: 10/10

Mitigation: 9/10

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EnvoyAssertionCrash LoopStartup FailureProxy

Description

Detects Envoy proxy crashes caused by assertion failures during startup or runtime.\nAssertion crashes typically include "critical][assert]" and "critical][backtrace]" entries followed by process termination.\n

Mitigation

Validate with `envoy --mode validate -c config.yaml`, confirm resource definitions,\nuse stable Envoy versions, monitor crash loops.\n

References

• https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/issues/9083
• https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/issues/22583