CVE-2026-48044: Envoyproxy Envoy

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. From 1.23.0 until 1.35.11, 1.36.7, 1.37.3, and 1.38.1, a vulnerability has been identified in Envoy's zstd decompressor implementation (ZstdDecompressorImpl). When zstd decompression is enabled, processing a specially crafted, highly compressed zstd payload can lead to massive memory allocation. An attacker can exploit this to cause severe memory exhaustion, potentially resulting in an Out-Of-Memory (OOM) kill and Denial of Service (DoS) for the Envoy proxy. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.35.11, 1.36.7, 1.37.3, and 1.38.1.

Affected products

• Envoyproxy Envoy: from 1.23.0, before 1.35.13 (fixed in 1.35.13); from 1.36.0, before 1.36.9 (fixed in 1.36.9); from 1.37.0, before 1.37.5 (fixed in 1.37.5); from 1.38.0, before 1.38.3 (fixed in 1.38.3)

Published 2026-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-29.