---
id: CVE-2026-50285
title: Pomerium is an identity and context-aware access proxy
summary: >-
  Pomerium is an identity and context-aware access proxy. Prior to 0.32.8,
  decodeQueryStringV2 in pkg/hpke/url.go performs zstd decompression of
  attacker-controlled data without an output-memory limit when DecryptURLValues
  processes HPKE V…
severity: high
cvss: 7.5
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'
cwe:
  - CWE-770
  - CWE-1284
  - CWE-400
vendor: pomerium
product: pomerium
affected:
  - pomerium < 0.32.8
patched:
  - github.com/pomerium/pomerium 0.32.8
published: '2026-09-17'
updated: '2026-09-24'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-24T21:25:27.050'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50285'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/pomerium/pomerium/commit/593eb81c7e5bdbe6071a30d330f374967869577f
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/pomerium/pomerium/releases/tag/v0.32.8'
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/pomerium/pomerium/security/advisories/GHSA-ggw3-5987-rx77
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/pomerium/pomerium/security/advisories/GHSA-ggw3-5987-rx77
    label: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
  - url: 'https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ggw3-5987-rx77'
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
  - exploit-available
  - ghsa
  - go
epss: 0.00741
epssPercentile: 0.52622
aliases:
  - GHSA-ggw3-5987-rx77
ecosystem: go
exploitAvailable: true
ssvc:
  exploitation: poc
  automatable: 'yes'
  technicalImpact: partial
  timestamp: '2026-09-17T20:19:36.446302Z'
ingestedAt: '2026-07-15T23:47:19.079Z'
---

## Overview

Pomerium is an identity and context-aware access proxy. Prior to 0.32.8, decodeQueryStringV2 in pkg/hpke/url.go performs zstd decompression of attacker-controlled data without an output-memory limit when DecryptURLValues processes HPKE V2 values for Stateless.Callback in internal/authenticateflow/stateless.go. In hosted or stateless authentication deployments, an unauthenticated attacker can obtain the receiver key from /.well-known/pomerium/hpke-public-key, provide a matching attacker-controlled sender key, and send a compressed payload to /.pomerium/callback that expands before validateSenderPublicKey rejects the sender. This can allocate hundreds of megabytes per request, exhaust proxy memory, crash or degrade the process, and block access to applications protected by the deployment. Stateful deployments are not affected because the stateful callback verifies its HMAC signature before decryption and decompression. This issue is fixed in version 0.32.8.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.

## Package advisory (CVE-2026-50285)

Affected packages:

- `github.com/pomerium/pomerium >= 0.32.6, < 0.32.8`

Patched in:

- `github.com/pomerium/pomerium 0.32.8`

Source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ggw3-5987-rx77