CVE-2026-65838

High

Description

Skipper is an HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. Prior to 0.27.35, the opaAuthorizeRequestWithBody filter in filters/openpolicyagent/openpolicyagent.go can allow an oversized declared Content-Length request to bypass a deny-on-presence Rego policy because ExtractHttpBodyOptionally leaves OPA with an empty parsed_body while forwarding the complete request body upstream. This incomplete remediation of CVE-2026-50197 affects deployments that authorize request-body content and exceed -open-policy-agent-max-request-body-size, which defaults to 1 MB. Policy logic that does not reject input.attributes.request.http.truncated_body can therefore fail open and permit a forbidden payload to reach the protected service, while small bodies and the previously fixed chunked-body case are evaluated normally. This issue is fixed in version 0.27.35.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.2
Exploit probability—
ProductGithub.com/zalando/skipper
PublishedSep 14, 2026
First seenSep 14, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-754CWE-754

How to fix

Update
  • github.com/zalando/skipper0.27.26 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
github.com/zalando/skipperGov < 0.27.260.27.26

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