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Medium · 5.8 CVE-2026-52724 EUVD-2026-78771GHSA-wvmp-6r4v-j6cv

kuma-dp connects to control plane without verifying TLS certificate when no CA is configured

Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 15, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Kuma is a modern Envoy-based service mesh that can run on every cloud across both Kubernetes and VMs. Prior to 2.7.26, 2.9.16, 2.11.14, 2.12.11, and 2.13.7, Universal mode kuma-dp connections to an HTTPS control plane disable TLS peer verification when --ca-cert-file is not supplied and KUMA_CONTROL_PLANE_CA_CERT is unset. The dataplane authentication token is sent over the unverified connection, allowing an on-path attacker to intercept the token, impersonate the control plane, inject a forged bootstrap configuration, and take over the proxy. Standard Kubernetes installations created by kumactl install control-plane or the official Helm chart are unaffected because the mutating admission webhook injects KUMA_CONTROL_PLANE_CA_CERT into each sidecar. This issue is fixed in versions 2.7.26, 2.9.16, 2.11.14, 2.12.11, and 2.13.7.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
kumahq kuma < 2.7.26, >= 2.8.0, < 2.9.16, >= 2.10.0, < 2.11.14, >= 2.12.0, < 2.12.11, >= 2.13.0, < 2.13.7 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

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