CVE-2026-73552

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 HTTP RBAC accepts RFC-valid opaque header bytes but evaluates safe_regex values with RE2's UTF-8 subject semantics. A downstream client can preserve a prohibited marker and add an unrelated obs-text octet, causing RE2::FullMatch to return false and a negative RBAC policy to treat the invalid subject as an ordinary no-match. A byte-oriented route matcher can still observe the marker, allowing the request to reach a route intended to be denied. The relevant scope boundary is that plain positive ALLOW regexes normally fail closed, and exact, prefix, suffix, and contains matchers are not shown to have this subject-domain failure. This issue is fixed in versions 1.36.10, 1.37.6, 1.38.4, and 1.39.1.
Configurations

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OR cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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History

05 Oct 2026, 14:35

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPE cpe:2.3:a:envoyproxy:envoy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
First Time Envoyproxy envoy
Envoyproxy
References () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/5650cb9770d4420ec2bcbed8b90be06f564ecc07 - () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/5650cb9770d4420ec2bcbed8b90be06f564ecc07 - Patch
References () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/7d1dee5dda66434d84437cc5c85153aa03955e26 - () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/7d1dee5dda66434d84437cc5c85153aa03955e26 - Patch
References () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/c2b9a19dc081f03be6a9b4ca932673e5e7a33d18 - () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/c2b9a19dc081f03be6a9b4ca932673e5e7a33d18 - Patch
References () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/f3726765f3a12ddc76dcb52c0b79bec3d95ced1c - () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/f3726765f3a12ddc76dcb52c0b79bec3d95ced1c - 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-23xh-2qxr-3xv8 - () https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-23xh-2qxr-3xv8 - Exploit, Vendor Advisory

21 Sep 2026, 20:17

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-09-21 20:17

Updated : 2026-10-05 14:35


NVD link : CVE-2026-73552

Mitre link : CVE-2026-73552

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-73552


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Products Affected

envoyproxy

  • envoy
CWE
CWE-20

Improper Input Validation