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.
Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-cwxq-rc9x-2jvv | Skipper: Unbounded Request Body Read in Admission Webhook Causes Memory Exhaustion DoS |
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History
Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:00:00 +0000
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Zalando
Zalando skipper |
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| 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 | |
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| Metrics |
cvssV3_1
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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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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-14T20:16:45.843
Modified: 2026-09-14T20:16:45.843
Link: CVE-2026-54247
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-09-15T11:45:17Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA