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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-53716 BIT-envoy-gateway-2026-53716EUVD-2026-78079GHSA-cxpq-8v7q-cg56GO-2026-6006

Envoy Gateway: Wasm HTTP fetch decompresses gzip without output-size limit

Published Sep 14, 2026 · Updated Sep 16, 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, getFileFromGZ in internal/wasm/httpfetcher.go calls io.ReadAll on a gzip.Reader without limiting decompressed output when a tenant-controlled EnvoyExtensionPolicy.spec.wasm[].code.http.url points to a reachable compressed Wasm payload. The 256 MiB compressed-input cap does not constrain the expanded size, no operator Wasm URL allowlist exists, and the optional sha256 check occurs only after decompression, so a comparatively small gzip stream can force a multi-gigabyte allocation in the shared controller. The resulting out-of-memory termination restarts the controller, re-reconciles the persistent custom resource, and can create a persistent cross-tenant control-plane outage. 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-cxpq-8v7q-cg56
Go github.com/envoyproxy/gateway < 1.7.4 1.7.4 GHSA-cxpq-8v7q-cg56
Go github.com/envoyproxy/gateway < 1.7.4 · >= 1.8.0-rc.0, < 1.8.1 1.7.4, 1.8.1 GO-2026-6006

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