CVE 5.9 MEDIUM

Envoy HTTP: OAuth2 filter late async token completion after stream teardown (UAF / crash risk)_CVE-2026-48090

5.9 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-48090
Source GitHub_M
Published Jun 26, 2026 at 18:03

Affected Product

Vendor envoyproxy
Product envoy
Version >= 1.38.0, < 1.38.3
Affected Versions envoyproxy envoy >= 1.38.0, < 1.38.3
envoyproxy envoy >= 1.37.0, < 1.37.5

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