CVE-2026-48090

MEDIUM

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

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9
EPSS 0.0043
EPSS Percentile 35.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (3)
envoyproxy/envoy 1.37.0 - 1.37.5
envoyproxy/envoy >= 1.37.0, < 1.37.5
envoyproxy/envoy >= 1.38.0, < 1.38.3
Published Jun 26, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 27, 2026