CVE-2026-65604

high

Description

Skipper contains an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-50197 in which oversized request bodies bypass Open Policy Agent (OPA) deny-on-presence Rego policies. When a request body exceeds the configured maxBodyBytes limit, Skipper forwards the full payload to the upstream service while OPA evaluates against an empty parsed_body, so policies that deny requests based on body content are not enforced and forbidden actions proceed. No fixed version is available; v0.27.26 adds documentation guidance only.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/skipper-incomplete-fix-for-cve-2026-50197-policy-bypass

https://github.com/zalando/skipper/security/advisories/GHSA-8qqm-fp2q-v734

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-23

Updated: 2026-07-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0029