Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency Affecting envoyproxy/envoy package, versions [1.35.0,1.35.13)[1.36.0,1.36.9)[1.37.0,1.37.5)[1.38.0,1.38.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ENVOYPROXYENVOY-17661093
  • published28 Jun 2026
  • disclosed26 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-47692  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-130  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade envoyproxy/envoy to version 1.35.13, 1.36.9, 1.37.5, 1.38.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in the PROXY Protocol v2 header generation process. An attacker can inject up to 65 KB of arbitrary data into the upstream application stream by crafting headers with excessive TLVs, resulting in a mismatch between the actual bytes written and the declared length field.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1