# CVE-2026-50197: Skipper: opaAuthorizeRequestWithBody filter bypasses OPA policy on Transfer-Encoding: chunked / HTTP/2 requests

- Also known as: GO-2026-5944, GHSA-659F-RGP5-W4WF
- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.26.10
- Published: 2026-07-17 · Updated: 2026-07-20

## Affected

- zalando skipper: fixed in 0.26.10
- github.com/zalando/skipper (Go): fixed in 0.26.10

## Description

Skipper is an HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. Prior to 0.26.10, zalando/skipper's OpenPolicyAgent integration silently bypasses request-body inspection on HTTP/1.1 Transfer-Encoding: chunked and HTTP/2 requests that omit the content-length pseudo-header, because the opaAuthorizeRequestWithBody filter and OpenPolicyAgentInstance.ExtractHttpBodyOptionally in filters/openpolicyagent/openpolicyagent.go produce an empty raw_body and input.parsed_body while the upstream service receives the full attacker-controlled body. This issue is fixed in version 0.26.10.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on zalando skipper, github.com/zalando/skipper, upgrade to a fixed version (0.26.10) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/zalando/skipper/security/advisories/GHSA-659f-rgp5-w4wf
- https://github.com/zalando/skipper/pull/4041
- https://github.com/zalando/skipper/commit/3152f3b0bb52ca89c3564be42434db0a2a1cea23
- https://github.com/zalando/skipper/releases/tag/v0.26.10

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