Use After Free Affecting envoyproxy/envoy package, versions [1.36.0,1.36.5)[1.37.0,1.37.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ENVOYPROXYENVOY-15466976
  • published12 Mar 2026
  • disclosed10 Mar 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-26330  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade envoyproxy/envoy to version 1.36.5, 1.37.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the rate limit filter when the response phase limit with apply_on_stream_done is enabled and the response phase limit request fails directly. An attacker can cause a crash by triggering a failed response phase limit request after the request phase limit has completed, leading to access of stale internal state in the gRPC client.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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version 3.1