GHSA-cwxq-rc9x-2jvv: github.com/zalando/skipper (CVE-2026-54247)

Skipper: Unbounded Request Body Read in Admission Webhook Causes Memory Exhaustion DoS

CVSS 4.3 MediumEPSS 0.0030 · 22nd percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 17 Jul 2026, 18:14 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
github.com/zalando/skipper	Go	<0.26.22	0.26.22

Identifiers

GHSA-cwxq-rc9x-2jvv · CVE-2026-54247 · GO-2026-6015

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-770

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Skipper versions before 0.26.22 read the full body of admission webhook requests with no size limit. An attacker with network access to the webhook port in the cluster can send a very large request, exhausting memory and crashing the process. Upgrade to Skipper 0.26.22 or later.

Written 6 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
4.3	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0030, the 22nd percentile, on 15 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 14:57 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:57 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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