CVE-2026-50197

Skipper: opaAuthorizeRequestWithBody filter bypasses OPA policy on Transfer-Encoding: chunked / HTTP/2 requests

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: July 17, 2026 at 07:23 PM UTC
Updated: October 24, 2026 at 08:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorSkipper

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
PoC

Description

Skipper is an HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. Prior to 0.26.10, zalando/skipper's OpenPolicyAgent integration silently bypasses request-body inspection on HTTP/1.1 Transfer-Encoding: chunked and HTTP/2 requests that omit the content-length pseudo-header, because the opaAuthorizeRequestWithBody filter and OpenPolicyAgentInstance.ExtractHttpBodyOptionally in filters/openpolicyagent/openpolicyagent.go produce an empty raw_body and input.parsed_body while the upstream service receives the full attacker-controlled body. This issue is fixed in version 0.26.10.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 0.26.10
Affected range stops below 0.26.10, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

7.8HIGHGitHub_M
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-444

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