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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-48521"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-21T19:44:15.389Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-21T20:04:16.440Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-48521"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-48521.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48521"
title: "Envoy: HTTP/3 connection pool selection null-derefs in ProdClusterManagerFactory::allocateConnPool when transport_socket_options is null"
summary: "Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Prior to 1.36.10, 1.37.6, 1.38.4, and 1.39.1, Envoy's ProdClusterManagerFactory::allocateConnPool dereferences transport_socket_options while selecting an HTTP/3 connection pool without first checking whether the pointer is null. LoadBalancerContext implementations used by synthetic, mirror, health-check, and async-client calls can return no transport-socket options. With auto_config and HTTP/3 enabled, routine traffic reaching one of those contexts can crash an Envoy worker. The relevant scope boundary is that the affected branch requires HTTP/3 in the protocol set and a context that supplies no transport-socket options. This issue is fixed in versions 1.36.10, 1.37.6, 1.38.4, and 1.39.1."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"\u003c 1.36.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 1.37.0, \u003c 1.37.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 1.38.0, \u003c 1.38.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 1.39.0, \u003c 1.39.1","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"envoyproxy","product":"envoy"}]

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