CVE-2026-48090CWE-416

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

Medium · published June 26, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.9
EPSS
1%
Percentile
47.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00579 · 47.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2026-06-26T18:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 JUN 18:03Z
    Envoy HTTP: OAuth2 filter late async token completion after stream teardown (UAF / crash risk)
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