onyx --cves cve-2026-48521
CVE-2026-48521
- score
- 12.6
- cvss
- 5.9
- epss
- 0.7%
- published
- 2026-09-21
- kev added
- —
- first seen
Envoy < 1.36.10, 1.37.6, 1.38.4, and 1.39.1 contains a denial of service caused by dereferencing a null transport_socket_options pointer in ProdClusterManagerFactory::allocateConnPool when selecting an HTTP/3 connection pool, letting attackers crash Envoy workers, exploit requires HTTP/3 enabled and specific LoadBalancerContext with no transport-socket options.
Timeline
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- Published
- Tracked by Onyx
- Public PoC
Exploit availability
Public PoC flagged by vulnx; no direct exploit link among the citations.
Weaknesses
References 9
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/8ef2da8527fcd17388b046c1add4fb47fb5d0868
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/cec4899acf03cf551f28611a5f32385648d95f96
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/f5436f44103fb14cb8ba42a8db0f54a06c98c45a
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.36.10
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.37.6
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.38.4
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.39.1
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-5vff-j9p4-38j3
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/e7b4839beef7f43594ce8e94c4563c80db04a8a7