Access token theft via CBC padding oracle
Published Jun 26, 2026 · Updated Jun 26, 2026
Padding oracle exposure in Envoy's OAuth2 HTTP filter allows remote attackers to recover PKCE verifiers and obtain access tokens. The filter encrypts CodeVerifier cookies with unauthenticated AES-256-CBC, and its callback distinguishes valid decryption with HTTP 302 from padding failure with HTTP 401. Exploitation requires a victim's encrypted cookie and authorization code, user initiation of an OAuth2 flow, and roughly 6,200 requests within the cookie lifetime.
Summary
What happened
Padding oracle exposure in Envoy's OAuth2 HTTP filter allows remote attackers to recover PKCE verifiers and obtain access tokens. The filter encrypts CodeVerifier cookies with unauthenticated AES-256-CBC, and its callback distinguishes valid decryption with HTTP 302 from padding failure with HTTP 401. Exploitation requires a victim's encrypted cookie and authorization code, user initiation of an OAuth2 flow, and roughly 6,200 requests within the cookie lifetime.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-47775
- Published
- Jun 26, 2026
- Updated
- Jun 26, 2026
- Vendor
- Envoy Proxy
- Product
- Envoy
- Classifications
- CWE-209, CWE-327, T1528
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 26, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 26, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=< 1.35.11
- Affected versionversion=>= 1.36.0, < 1.36.7
- Affected versionversion=>= 1.37.0, < 1.37.3
- Affected versionversion=>= 1.38.0, < 1.38.1
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Public exploit references
- OAuth2 filter padding-oracle end-to-end exploitfunctional · demonstrated
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