FKIE_CVE-2026-48044

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-06-26 18:16 - Updated: 2026-06-29 18:40
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-m3p9-47wh-88wgMitigation, Vendor Advisory, Exploit
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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