CVE-2026-48706
Published:June 26, 2026
Updated:June 29, 2026
Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. From 1.34.0 until 1.35.13, 1.36.9, 1.37.5, and 1.38.3, a vulnerability exists in Envoy's TCP StatsD sink (TcpStatsdSink), where the thread-local flusher buffer can be overflowed by exceptionally long statistic names (e.g., >16KiB). During formatting, TcpStatsdSink reserves a single contiguous memory slice of 16KiB (FLUSH_SLICE_SIZE_BYTES). If formatting a single metric exceeds the remaining capacity, the flusher initiates a buffer rotation but incorrectly continues to allocate another fixed 16KiB slice. If an attacker can trigger a statistic name longer than 16KiB—for example, by sending an HTTP or gRPC request with an extremely long request path (:path) that is recorded by the grpc_stats filter configured with stats_for_all_methods: true—the flusher will attempt to copy the metric name using memcpy operations beyond the allocated heap buffer boundaries. This leads to a heap write overflow, which can cause immediate denial-of-service (process crash) or potential remote code execution (RCE). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.35.13, 1.36.9, 1.37.5, and 1.38.3.
Affected Packages
github.com/envoyproxy/envoy (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v1.38.0 <v1.38.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.38.3github.com/envoyproxy/envoy (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v1.34.0 <v1.35.13Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.35.13github.com/envoyproxy/envoy (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v1.36.0 <v1.36.9Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.36.9github.com/envoyproxy/envoy (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v1.37.0 <v1.37.5Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.37.5Related Resources (1)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
8.2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
EPSS
Base Score:
0.56