High severity · published Sep 21, 2026
CVE-2026-73550
Envoy: HTTP/2 Discarded Host Header 200 GB Header-Copy OOM in Envoy
7.5
CVSS
0.6%
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 copies every decoded HTTP/2 Host header value before discarding it when :authority is already present. The discarded value bypasses saveHeader, so its bytes and count are not charged against request header limits. An unauthenticated client can use HPACK indexing to submit many references to a large Host value across a bounded number of streams, forcing extreme header-copy allocation and causing the proxy to be out-of-memory killed. The relevant scope boundary is that the demonstrated amplification uses HTTP/2 HPACK and the duplicate Host discard behavior. 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:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 46% 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-2026-73550
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-73550
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-qgf6-qvhw-4hvh
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/0910997f70e91d2d20c329bb507bfce44ce01f80
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/1fec994c868df008cdd4ae285aab58a196fd31f2
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/3fd0ffee7ac87adf3bc6e421656bb96310512300
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commit/fc75d8e35b0d11acbae18b63a0bd96e32e84f61b
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.36.10
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