# CVE-2026-54247: Skipper: Unbounded Request Body Read in Admission Webhook Causes Memory Exhaustion DoS

- Also known as: GHSA-CWXQ-RC9X-2JVV, GO-2026-6015
- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.26.22
- Published: 2026-09-14 · Updated: 2026-09-16

## Affected

- zalando skipper: fixed in 0.26.22
- github.com/zalando/skipper (Go): fixed in 0.26.22

## Description

Skipper is an HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. Prior to 0.26.22, Handler in dataclients/kubernetes/admission/admission.go passes the body of requests to the Kubernetes admission endpoint at :9443/admission directly to io.ReadAll(r.Body) without a size limit. An attacker with in-cluster network access and a valid Kubernetes client certificate can send a very large body that causes unbounded memory allocation and an out-of-memory termination of the Skipper process. The disruption is limited to Ingress and RouteGroup admission rather than pod creation or unrelated admission controllers, and Kubernetes normally restarts the process. This issue is fixed in version 0.26.22.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on zalando skipper, github.com/zalando/skipper, upgrade to a fixed version (0.26.22) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/zalando/skipper/security/advisories/GHSA-cwxq-rc9x-2jvv
- https://github.com/zalando/skipper/pull/4053
- https://github.com/zalando/skipper/commit/c3d156c6caaefecc9a46774c0f9c3c70b97160b4
- https://github.com/zalando/skipper/releases/tag/v0.26.22

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