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CVE-2026-53719: Envoy Gateway: Nil-dereference when SecurityPolicy targets TCPRoute without spec.authorization

July 16, 2026

Vulnerability report without repro case. Repro case may be added later after harness is complete.

Preconditions (4):

  • Tenant has SecurityPolicy + TCPRoute RBAC (baseline)
  • Tenant namespace permitted to attach TCPRoute to a Gateway listener
  • spec.authorization omitted (the trigger)
  • No admission webhook blocks the shape

Description:

A namespace-scoped tenant can deterministically panic the gatewayapi runner on every reconcile with a single CRD; the recover() in message/watchutil.go:53 keeps the process alive but unwinds the entire handle() callback in runner/runner.go:192, so xDS/Infra IR publishing stalls controller-wide until an admin deletes the object. Data plane keeps serving last-good config.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-m2v6-2jmh-4c68
  • github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/security/advisories/GHSA-m2v6-2jmh-4c68
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53719

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.7.4, all versions starting from 1.8.0-rc.0 before 1.8.1

Fixed versions

  • 1.7.4
  • 1.8.1

Solution

Upgrade to versions 1.7.4, 1.8.1 or above.

Impact 6.5 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Source file

go/github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/CVE-2026-53719.yml

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