Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-53715 BIT-envoy-gateway-2026-53715EUVD-2026-78077GHSA-8fv2-88gg-hm7qGO-2026-6005

Envoy Gateway: Wasm cache ServeHTTP reads mappingPath2Cache without lock

Published Sep 14, 2026 · Updated Sep 15, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Envoy Gateway is an open source project for managing Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway. Prior to 1.7.4 and 1.8.1, HTTPServer.ServeHTTP in internal/wasm/httpserver.go reads the plain mappingPath2Cache map without synchronization while HTTPServer.Get writes the same map during EnvoyExtensionPolicy translation. An attacker with pod-network access to unauthenticated port 18002 and tenant permission to churn policies with distinct Wasm URLs can flood GET requests until a per-request reader overlaps a writer. Go's concurrent map read and write detection invokes runtime.throw, which the net/http connection recovery cannot catch, terminating the controller process and causing a timing-dependent, cross-tenant control-plane denial of service until Kubernetes restarts the pod. This issue is fixed in versions 1.7.4 and 1.8.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
envoyproxy gateway < 1.7.4, >= 1.8.0-rc.0, < 1.8.1 —

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

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling datadog-cluster-agent-7.73 7.73.3-r23 —
Wolfi rolling datadog-cluster-agent-7.77 7.77.3-r23 —
Wolfi rolling datadog-cluster-agent-7.78 7.78.4-r16 —
Wolfi rolling datadog-cluster-agent-7.79 7.79.2-r15 —
Wolfi rolling datadog-cluster-agent-7.80 7.80.4-r7 —
Wolfi rolling tigera-operator-1.42 1.42.4-r2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/envoyproxy/gateway >= 1.8.0-rc.0, < 1.8.1 1.8.1 GHSA-8fv2-88gg-hm7q
Go github.com/envoyproxy/gateway < 1.7.4 1.7.4 GHSA-8fv2-88gg-hm7q
Go github.com/envoyproxy/gateway < 1.7.4 · >= 1.8.0-rc.0, < 1.8.1 1.7.4, 1.8.1 GO-2026-6005

Advisories 1

References