High severity · published Sep 21, 2026
CVE-2026-73548
Envoy: Cross-user response poisoning via a generic (non-WebSocket) HTTP upgrade on Envoy's shared backend pool
7.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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 forwards data for a configured non-WebSocket HTTP upgrade before the upstream accepts the upgrade. An unauthenticated HTTP/2 client can place a complete HTTP/1.1 request in extended CONNECT data; Envoy downgrades the request, writes the data unframed to a keep-alive HTTP/1.1 upstream, and returns the socket to the shared pool while the smuggled response remains queued. A different downstream client can then receive the attacker's response. The relevant scope boundary is that webSocket upgrades, plain CONNECT, disabled backend keep-alive, per-downstream pools, and max_requests_per_connection set to 1 are not affected by the demonstrated path. This issue is fixed in versions 1.36.10, 1.37.6, 1.38.4, and 1.39.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 40% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EN
envoy · envoyproxy
< 1.36.10; >= 1.37.0, < 1.37.6; >= 1.38.0, < 1.38.4; >= 1.39.0, < 1.39.1 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-73548
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-73548
Patch
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/309855626966cff176155c821043ed3b44671361
Patch
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/3c7998545a9c9fb3933a4bc1907d92f0e752bc2b
Patch
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/4633b8cce3d15b8734eefe232e30c12b0140b91c
Patch
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/bd6711f2617658e28dfa3df3dace6bfe3cfc0766
Release Notes
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.36.10
Release Notes
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.37.6
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