CVE-2026-48044

Summary

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. From 1.23.0 until 1.35.11, 1.36.7, 1.37.3, and 1.38.1, a vulnerability has been identified in Envoy's zstd decompressor implementation (ZstdDecompressorImpl). When zstd decompression is enabled, processing a specially crafted, highly compressed zstd payload can lead to massive memory allocation. An attacker can exploit this to cause severe memory exhaustion, potentially resulting in an Out-Of-Memory (OOM) kill and Denial of Service (DoS) for the Envoy proxy. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.35.11, 1.36.7, 1.37.3, and 1.38.1.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
envoyproxyenvoy>= 1.38.0, < 1.38.1affected
envoyproxyenvoy>= 1.37.0, < 1.37.3affected
envoyproxyenvoy>= 1.36.0, < 1.36.7affected
envoyproxyenvoy>= 1.23.0, < 1.35.11affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-409: CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

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