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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.8 High

CVE-2026-65604

Skipper Incomplete Fix for CVE-2026-50197 Policy Bypass

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

zalando skipper

Default version status: affected

pkg:golang/github.com/zalando/skipper

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