Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Prior to 1.35.11, 1.36.7, 1.37.3, and 1.38.1, destructor of JSON Object results in stack overflow when deeply O(100K) nested objects are present. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.35.11, 1.36.7, 1.37.3, and 1.38.1.
CVE-2026-48042
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.6%, top 57% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- —
- EPSS
- 43.0%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 26, 2026
Last Modified
June 29, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Jun 26, 2026Stack overflow in destructor of highly nested JSON · Advisory · envoyproxy/envoy · GitHub
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-f24p-rxw2-g6pvenvoy/source/common/json/json_loader.h at 099a9d71ebfd8aa9f823e1738b34138cb634a07b · envoyproxy/envoy · GitHub
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/blob/099a9d71ebfd8aa9f823e1738b34138cb634a07b/source/common/json/json_loader.h#L21Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-48042(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 7× in last 7d / 29× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
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- 2026-06-28 04:56 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-06-26 19:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-26 19:41 UTCNVD updatefirst tracked
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