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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-26311 BIT-envoy-2026-26311EUVD-2026-10804GHSA-84xm-r438-86px

Envoy HTTP: filter chain execution on reset streams causing UAF crash

Published Mar 10, 2026 · Updated Mar 10, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Envoy is a high-performance edge/middle/service proxy. Prior to 1.37.1, 1.36.5, 1.35.8, and 1.34.13, a logic vulnerability in Envoy's HTTP connection manager (FilterManager) that allows for Zombie Stream Filter Execution. This issue creates a "Use-After-Free" (UAF) or state-corruption window where filter callbacks are invoked on an HTTP stream that has already been logically reset and cleaned up. The vulnerability resides in source/common/http/filter_manager.cc within the FilterManager::decodeData method. The ActiveStream object remains valid in memory during the deferred deletion window. If a DATA frame arrives on this stream immediately after the reset (e.g., in the same packet processing cycle), the HTTP/2 codec invokes ActiveStream::decodeData, which cascades to FilterManager::decodeData. FilterManager::decodeData fails to check the saw_downstream_reset_ flag. It iterates over the decoder_filters_ list and invokes decodeData() on filters that have already received onDestroy(). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.37.1, 1.36.5, 1.35.8, and 1.34.13.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
envoyproxy envoy >= 1.37.0, < 1.37.1, >= 1.36.0, < 1.36.5, >= 1.35.0, < 1.35.9, < 1.34.13 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 ecs-service-connect-agent v1.34.13.0-1.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1532

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/envoyproxy/envoy 1.37.0 — GHSA-84xm-r438-86px
Go github.com/envoyproxy/envoy >= 1.36.0, <= 1.36.4 — GHSA-84xm-r438-86px
Go github.com/envoyproxy/envoy >= 1.35.0, <= 1.35.8 — GHSA-84xm-r438-86px
Go github.com/envoyproxy/envoy <= 1.34.12 — GHSA-84xm-r438-86px

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