CVE-2026-48090

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

State
Published
Severity
5.9 Medium
Published
Jun 26, 2026
Updated
Jul 8, 2026
Reserved
May 20, 2026

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
envoyenvoyproxy
  • >= 1.38.0, < 1.38.3Affected
  • >= 1.37.0, < 1.37.5Affected

References

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