5.9
MEDIUM CVSS 3.1
CVE-2026-48706
Envoy Heap Buffer Overflow in TcpStatsdSink
Description

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. From 1.34.0 until 1.35.13, 1.36.9, 1.37.5, and 1.38.3, a vulnerability exists in Envoy's TCP StatsD sink (TcpStatsdSink), where the thread-local flusher buffer can be overflowed by exceptionally long statistic names (e.g., >16KiB). During formatting, TcpStatsdSink reserves a single contiguous memory slice of 16KiB (FLUSH_SLICE_SIZE_BYTES). If formatting a single metric exceeds the remaining capacity, the flusher initiates a buffer rotation but incorrectly continues to allocate another fixed 16KiB slice. If an attacker can trigger a statistic name longer than 16KiB—for example, by sending an HTTP or gRPC request with an extremely long request path (:path) that is recorded by the grpc_stats filter configured with stats_for_all_methods: true—the flusher will attempt to copy the metric name using memcpy operations beyond the allocated heap buffer boundaries. This leads to a heap write overflow, which can cause immediate denial-of-service (process crash) or potential remote code execution (RCE). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.35.13, 1.36.9, 1.37.5, and 1.38.3.

INFO

Published Date :

June 26, 2026, 5:38 p.m.

Last Modified :

June 26, 2026, 5:38 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

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Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-48706 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Envoyproxy envoy
CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 3.1 MEDIUM MITRE-CVE
Solution
Update Envoy to a patched version to fix heap overflow vulnerabilities.
  • Update Envoy to version 1.35.13 or later.
  • Update Envoy to version 1.36.9 or later.
  • Update Envoy to version 1.37.5 or later.
  • Update Envoy to version 1.38.3 or later.

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