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.
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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-cwxq-rc9x-2jvv Skipper: Unbounded Request Body Read in Admission Webhook Causes Memory Exhaustion DoS
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Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Zalando
Zalando skipper
Vendors & Products Zalando
Zalando skipper

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:00:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Skipper: Unbounded Request Body Read in Admission Webhook Causes Memory Exhaustion DoS
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-14T20:04:06.550Z

Reserved: 2026-06-12T16:25:43.085Z

Link: CVE-2026-54247

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-14T20:16:45.843

Modified: 2026-09-14T20:16:45.843

Link: CVE-2026-54247

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-15T04:45:11Z

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