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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-48090 EUVD-2026-39830

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

Published Jun 26, 2026 · Updated Jul 8, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
envoyproxy envoy >= 1.38.0, < 1.38.3, >= 1.37.0, < 1.37.5 —

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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed istioctl 1.30.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11141-1

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