CVE-2026-50285 Pomerium - Denial of Service

Pomerium < 0.32.8 contains a denial of service caused by unbounded zstd decompression of attacker-controlled data in decodeQueryStringV2, letting unauthenticated attackers exhaust memory and crash the proxy, exploit requires attacker to obtain receiver key and send crafted compressed payload.

CVSS base score 7.5 /10
High
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
None known
Authentication
Not required
EPSS
0.74% chance of exploitation in 30 days
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Details

Type
Denial of Service
Impact
Denial Of Service
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published
17 September 2026
Updated
15 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-770

Vendor fix

Update to version 0.32.8 or later.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

References

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