CVE-2026-48521

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Prior to 1.36.10, 1.37.6, 1.38.4, and 1.39.1, Envoy's ProdClusterManagerFactory::allocateConnPool dereferences transport_socket_options while selecting an HTTP/3 connection pool without first checking whether the pointer is null. LoadBalancerContext implementations used by synthetic, mirror, health-check, and async-client calls can return no transport-socket options. With auto_config and HTTP/3 enabled, routine traffic reaching one of those contexts can crash an Envoy worker. The relevant scope boundary is that the affected branch requires HTTP/3 in the protocol set and a context that supplies no transport-socket options. This issue is fixed in versions 1.36.10, 1.37.6, 1.38.4, and 1.39.1.
Configurations

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History

05 Oct 2026, 14:09

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References () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/8ef2da8527fcd17388b046c1add4fb47fb5d0868 - () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/8ef2da8527fcd17388b046c1add4fb47fb5d0868 - Patch
References () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/cec4899acf03cf551f28611a5f32385648d95f96 - () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/cec4899acf03cf551f28611a5f32385648d95f96 - Patch
References () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/e7b4839beef7f43594ce8e94c4563c80db04a8a7 - () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/e7b4839beef7f43594ce8e94c4563c80db04a8a7 - Patch
References () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/f5436f44103fb14cb8ba42a8db0f54a06c98c45a - () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/f5436f44103fb14cb8ba42a8db0f54a06c98c45a - Patch
References () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.36.10 - () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.36.10 - Release Notes
References () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.37.6 - () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.37.6 - Release Notes
References () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.38.4 - () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.38.4 - Release Notes
References () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.39.1 - () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.39.1 - Release Notes
References () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-5vff-j9p4-38j3 - () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-5vff-j9p4-38j3 - Exploit, Vendor Advisory
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CPE cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Information

Published : 2026-09-21 20:17

Updated : 2026-10-05 14:09


NVD link : CVE-2026-48521

Mitre link : CVE-2026-48521

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-48521


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Products Affected

envoyproxy

  • envoy
CWE
CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference