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",
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"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."
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"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."
}
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"affected": [
{
"source": "[email protected]",
"affectedData": [
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"vendor": "zalando",
"product": "skipper",
"versions": [
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"status": "affected"
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"type": "Secondary",
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"availabilityRequirement": "NOT_DEFINED",
"modifiedAttackVector": "NOT_DEFINED",
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"modifiedSubIntegrityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED",
"modifiedSubAvailabilityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED",
"Safety": "NOT_DEFINED",
"Automatable": "NOT_DEFINED",
"Recovery": "NOT_DEFINED",
"valueDensity": "NOT_DEFINED",
"vulnerabilityResponseEffort": "NOT_DEFINED",
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"description": [
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"references": [
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"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",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/zalando/skipper/security/advisories/GHSA-659f-rgp5-w4wf",
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