# CVE-2026-65838: Skipper: an oversized declared-\`Content-Length\` body still hands OPA an empty \`parsed\_body\`, so deny-on-presence Rego policies fail OPEN while the full payload reaches upstream

- Also known as: GHSA-8QQM-FP2Q-V734, GO-2026-6019
- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.27.35, 0.27.26
- Published: 2026-09-14 · Updated: 2026-09-15

## Affected

- zalando skipper: fixed in 0.27.35
- github.com/zalando/skipper (Go): fixed in 0.27.26

## Description

Skipper is an HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. Prior to 0.27.35, the opaAuthorizeRequestWithBody filter in filters/openpolicyagent/openpolicyagent.go can allow an oversized declared Content-Length request to bypass a deny-on-presence Rego policy because ExtractHttpBodyOptionally leaves OPA with an empty parsed_body while forwarding the complete request body upstream. This incomplete remediation of CVE-2026-50197 affects deployments that authorize request-body content and exceed -open-policy-agent-max-request-body-size, which defaults to 1 MB. Policy logic that does not reject input.attributes.request.http.truncated_body can therefore fail open and permit a forbidden payload to reach the protected service, while small bodies and the previously fixed chunked-body case are evaluated normally. This issue is fixed in version 0.27.35.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on zalando skipper, github.com/zalando/skipper, upgrade to a fixed version (0.27.35, 0.27.26) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/zalando/skipper/security/advisories/GHSA-8qqm-fp2q-v734
- https://github.com/zalando/skipper/commit/2cfceabaa6ff0af65b312dcb9bcbe84691b9d507
- https://github.com/zalando/skipper/releases/tag/v0.27.35

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