CVE-2026-26311

Description

Envoy is a high-performance edge/middle/service proxy. Prior to 1.37.1, 1.36.5, 1.35.8, and 1.34.13, a logic vulnerability in Envoy's HTTP connection manager (FilterManager) that allows for Zombie Stream Filter Execution. This issue creates a "Use-After-Free" (UAF) or state-corruption window where filter callbacks are invoked on an HTTP stream that has already been logically reset and cleaned up. The vulnerability resides in source/common/http/filter_manager.cc within the FilterManager::decodeData method. The ActiveStream object remains valid in memory during the deferred deletion window. If a DATA frame arrives on this stream immediately after the reset (e.g., in the same packet processing cycle), the HTTP/2 codec invokes ActiveStream::decodeData, which cascades to FilterManager::decodeData. FilterManager::decodeData fails to check the saw_downstream_reset_ flag. It iterates over the decoder_filters_ list and invokes decodeData() on filters that have already received onDestroy(). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.37.1, 1.36.5, 1.35.8, and 1.34.13.

Affected packages (2)

• Bitnami/envoyfrom 0, < 1.34.13, >= 1.35.0, < 1.35.9, >= 1.36.0, < 1.36.5, >= 1.37.0, < 1.37.1
• Go/github.com/envoyproxy/envoy

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References (3)

• ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-26311
• PATCHhttps://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy
• WEBhttps://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-84xm-r438-86px