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CVE-2026-48090

MEDIUM
5.9
CVSS 3.1
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.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-48090
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Reserved
2026-05-20 18:40 UTC
Published
2026-06-26 18:03 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-26 18:03 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-416
CWE-416: Use After Free
Vendor / Product
envoyproxy / envoy
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

5.9 MEDIUM CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
envoyproxy envoy >= 1.38.0, < 1.38.3, >= 1.37.0, < 1.37.5
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-416 cna CWE-416: Use After Free
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
5.9 MEDIUM 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References (1)
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