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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-73552 EUVD-2026-84104

Envoy: HTTP RBAC safe_regex can fail open on RFC-valid obs-text header values

Published Sep 21, 2026 · Updated Sep 22, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Prior to 1.36.10, 1.37.6, 1.38.4, and 1.39.1, Envoy HTTP RBAC accepts RFC-valid opaque header bytes but evaluates safe_regex values with RE2's UTF-8 subject semantics. A downstream client can preserve a prohibited marker and add an unrelated obs-text octet, causing RE2::FullMatch to return false and a negative RBAC policy to treat the invalid subject as an ordinary no-match. A byte-oriented route matcher can still observe the marker, allowing the request to reach a route intended to be denied. The relevant scope boundary is that plain positive ALLOW regexes normally fail closed, and exact, prefix, suffix, and contains matchers are not shown to have this subject-domain failure. This issue is fixed in versions 1.36.10, 1.37.6, 1.38.4, and 1.39.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
envoyproxy envoy < 1.36.10, >= 1.37.0, < 1.37.6, >= 1.38.0, < 1.38.4, >= 1.39.0, < 1.39.1 —

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 1.30.4-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11630-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 ecs-service-connect-agent v1.39.1.0-1.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-2149

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