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What is this endpoint?

envoy/admin/clusters

Envoy Proxy Admin Interface

What an attacker could do

The Envoy admin interface discloses upstream cluster endpoints and health, and exposes endpoints to drain listeners, change log levels, or dump configs and the heap, enabling reconnaissance and denial of service.

How to defend it

Bind the Envoy admin listener to 127.0.0.1 only, never expose it via a route or ingress, and restrict it with network policies.

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