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CVE-2026-48044

Envoy Zstd Decompressor: Ratio Check at Wrong Loop Depth lead to memory explosion

Description

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. From 1.23.0 until 1.35.11, 1.36.7, 1.37.3, and 1.38.1, a vulnerability has been identified in Envoy's zstd decompressor implementation (ZstdDecompressorImpl). When zstd decompression is enabled, processing a specially crafted, highly compressed zstd payload can lead to massive memory allocation. An attacker can exploit this to cause severe memory exhaustion, potentially resulting in an Out-Of-Memory (OOM) kill and Denial of Service (DoS) for the Envoy proxy. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.35.11, 1.36.7, 1.37.3, and 1.38.1.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By GitHub_M

  2. · 37 days later

    Published

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2026-48044, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
GitHub_MCNA (assigner)3.1High7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVDNVD · Analyzed3.1High7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.49% · top 58% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Affected products

  • envoyproxy · envoy

    • affected >= 1.38.0, < 1.38.1
    • affected >= 1.37.0, < 1.37.3
    • affected >= 1.36.0, < 1.36.7
    • affected >= 1.23.0, < 1.35.11

References

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Sources

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