CVE-2026-55149
Vouch Proxy is an SSO and OAuth/OIDC login solution for Nginx using the auth_request module.
Impact
Vouch Proxy is an SSO and OAuth/OIDC login solution for Nginx using the auth_request module. Prior to 0.48.0, Cookie in pkg/cookie/cookie.go parses the total part count from an attacker-controlled multipart cookie name and passes the value to make([]string, numParts) without checking that the value is positive or reasonably bounded. Requests to /validate and /_external-auth-:id reach JWTCacheHandler in pkg/jwtmanager/jwtcache.go, FindJWT in pkg/jwtmanager/jwtmanager.go, and the vulnerable cookie reassembly before JWT validation, so no account or valid session is required. A cookie name such as VouchCookie_1of10000000000 causes an attempted slice allocation of roughly 160 GB and a fatal Go runtime out-of-memory condition, allowing one request to crash the authentication proxy and repeated requests to sustain unavailability. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.48.0.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| go | github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy | <= 0.47.2 | 0.48.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qqff-5854-px68
- https://github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy/security/advisories/GHSA-qqff-5854-px68
- https://github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy/commit/fa18ce30ba50a4863a436acad044c22965329c4f
- https://github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy/releases/tag/v0.48.0