Use-After-Free in Envoy (CVE-2026-48090)
Summary
Vulnerability in Envoy (CVE-2026-48090). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 1.37.5 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. From 1.37.0 until 1.37.5 and 1.38.3, the HTTP OAuth2 filter (envoy.filters.http.oauth2) can leave an in-flight async token exchange attached to a downstream stream that has already been torn down. A late AsyncClient completion can still invoke OAuth2Filter methods that use StreamDecoderFilterCallbacks after that object’s lifetime has ended, causing undefined behavior, worker crashes (availability loss), and use-after-free / invalid-vptr failures under AddressSanitizer. This is a memory-safety / lifetime issue in the data plane, not a trivial config bug. Remote code execution is not claimed here; the primary demonstrated impact is DoS via crash and UB; any further impact would be deployment- and allocator-dependent. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.37.5 and 1.38.3.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-48090 has been found in Envoy.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.9/10.
What to do: upgrade Envoy to 1.37.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Envoy CVE-2026-48090" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-48090 (Envoy) — CWE-416 / CVSS v3 5.9
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 1.37.5 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Use-after-free (CWE-416) exists in Envoy.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Envoy.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.9/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 1.37.5.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Envoy' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Envoy' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Envoyを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade Envoy to 1.37.5ステージング環境で 1.37.5 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory github.com
- web nvd.nist.gov