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CVE-2026-54247
Published:September 14, 2026
Updated:September 22, 2026
Skipper is an HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. Prior to 0.26.22, Handler in dataclients/kubernetes/admission/admission.go passes the body of requests to the Kubernetes admission endpoint at :9443/admission directly to io.ReadAll(r.Body) without a size limit. An attacker with in-cluster network access and a valid Kubernetes client certificate can send a very large body that causes unbounded memory allocation and an out-of-memory termination of the Skipper process. The disruption is limited to Ingress and RouteGroup admission rather than pod creation or unrelated admission controllers, and Kubernetes normally restarts the process. This issue is fixed in version 0.26.22.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/zalando/skipper.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v0.10.0 <v0.26.22
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v0.26.22
github.com/zalando/skipper (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v0.0.0-20151030142816-cf07e1d50300 <v0.26.22
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v0.26.22
github.com/zalando/skipper (GO):
Affected version(s) >=aaa815a0d4aae9c58df8a6bca770594a2edab2ba <v0.26.22
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v0.26.22
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
5.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
LOW
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
4.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
Weakness Type (CWE)
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
EPSS
Base Score:
0.23