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CVE-2026-50197

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Description

Skipper is an HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. Prior to 0.26.10, zalando/skipper's OpenPolicyAgent integration silently bypasses request-body inspection on HTTP/1.1 Transfer-Encoding: chunked and HTTP/2 requests that omit the content-length pseudo-header, because the opaAuthorizeRequestWithBody filter and OpenPolicyAgentInstance.ExtractHttpBodyOptionally in filters/openpolicyagent/openpolicyagent.go produce an empty raw_body and input.parsed_body while the upstream service receives the full attacker-controlled body. This issue is fixed in version 0.26.10.

Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.8 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Deferred
Source identifier
Published
2026-07-17 20:17:24.087000
Last modified
2026-10-24 20:10:00.137000
View original CVE JSON
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  "id": "CVE-2026-50197",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-07-17T20:17:24.087",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-24T20:10:00.137",
  "vulnStatus": "Deferred",
  "cveTags": [],
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      "lang": "en",
      "value": "Skipper is an HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. Prior to 0.26.10, zalando/skipper's OpenPolicyAgent integration silently bypasses request-body inspection on HTTP/1.1 Transfer-Encoding: chunked and HTTP/2 requests that omit the content-length pseudo-header, because the opaAuthorizeRequestWithBody filter and OpenPolicyAgentInstance.ExtractHttpBodyOptionally in filters/openpolicyagent/openpolicyagent.go produce an empty raw_body and input.parsed_body while the upstream service receives the full attacker-controlled body. This issue is fixed in version 0.26.10."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "Skipper es un router HTTP y proxy inverso para composición de servicios. Antes de la versión 0.26.10, la integración de OpenPolicyAgent de zalando/skipper omite silenciosamente la inspección del cuerpo de la solicitud en solicitudes HTTP/1.1 con Transfer-Encoding: chunked y solicitudes HTTP/2 que omiten el pseudo-encabezado content-length, porque el filtro opaAuthorizeRequestWithBody y OpenPolicyAgentInstance.ExtractHttpBodyOptionally en filters/openpolicyagent/openpolicyagent.go producen un raw_body y un input.parsed_body vacíos mientras que el servicio ascendente recibe el cuerpo completo controlado por el atacante. Este problema está solucionado en la versión 0.26.10."
    }
  ],
  "affected": [
    {
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      "affectedData": [
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          "product": "skipper",
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          "modifiedAttackRequirements": "NOT_DEFINED",
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          "modifiedSubAvailabilityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "Safety": "NOT_DEFINED",
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          "Recovery": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "valueDensity": "NOT_DEFINED",
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      "source": "[email protected]",
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  "references": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/zalando/skipper/commit/3152f3b0bb52ca89c3564be42434db0a2a1cea23",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
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      "url": "https://github.com/zalando/skipper/pull/4041",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
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      "url": "https://github.com/zalando/skipper/releases/tag/v0.26.10",
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      "url": "https://github.com/zalando/skipper/security/advisories/GHSA-659f-rgp5-w4wf",
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