CVE-2026-50572

Summary

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Prior to 1.36.10, 1.37.6, 1.38.4, and 1.39.1, Envoy's HTTP external-authorization client can retain a stale request callback after a request is rejected. When RawHttpClientImpl::onSuccess later processes the authorization response, it can invoke callbacks_ after the callback owner has been destroyed, causing a use-after-free and process crash under production traffic. The relevant scope boundary is that the vulnerable path uses the HTTP ext_authz client; the advisory does not establish the same trigger for unrelated filters. This issue is fixed in versions 1.36.10, 1.37.6, 1.38.4, and 1.39.1.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
envoyproxyenvoy< 1.36.10affected
envoyproxyenvoy>= 1.37.0, < 1.37.6affected
envoyproxyenvoy>= 1.38.0, < 1.38.4affected
envoyproxyenvoy>= 1.39.0, < 1.39.1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-416: CWE-416: Use After Free

References