Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting envoyproxy/envoy package, versions [,1.36.10)[1.37.0,1.37.6)[1.38.0,1.38.4)[1.39.0,1.39.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.58% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ENVOYPROXYENVOY-20078978
  • published24 Sept 2026
  • disclosed26 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-73550  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade envoyproxy/envoy to version 1.36.10, 1.37.6, 1.38.4, 1.39.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to discarded Host headers not being counted towards memory limits in HTTP/2 processing. An attacker can cause memory exhaustion by sending a large number of requests with discarded Host headers.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1