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, internal/wasm/imagefetcher.go follows tenant-controlled EnvoyExtensionPolicy spec.wasm[].code.image.url values to Docker or OCI Wasm layers, and extractWasmPluginBinary uses the untrusted tar-header h.Size value to allocate memory before validating the entry name or declared size. A small PAX or GNU tar header can therefore claim a multi-terabyte entry even though the surrounding LimitReader restricts only the bytes read from the stream, and no registry allowlist prevents a permitted tenant from selecting an attacker-controlled registry that the controller can reach. The allocation is attempted for every tar entry and can cause an unrecoverable Go runtime out-of-memory failure; because the custom resource persists, reconciliation repeatedly crash-loops the shared controller and causes a single-request, non-volumetric, cluster-wide control-plane denial of service. This issue is fixed in versions 1.7.4 and 1.8.1.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
openSUSE
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | govulncheck-vulndb | 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 | openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1 |
Wolfi
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/envoyproxy/gateway | >= 1.8.0-rc.0, < 1.8.1 | 1.8.1 | GHSA-h7pq-86h8-rp5x |
| Go | github.com/envoyproxy/gateway | < 1.7.4 | 1.7.4 | GHSA-h7pq-86h8-rp5x |
| Go | github.com/envoyproxy/gateway | < 1.7.4 · >= 1.8.0-rc.0, < 1.8.1 | 1.7.4, 1.8.1 | GO-2026-6008 |
Advisories 1
- openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1 Security update for govulncheck-vulndb SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Jul 31, 2026
References
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/security/advisories/GHSA-h7pq-86h8-rp5x
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/9171
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/9172
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/9173
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/commit/5a78db82b7cf4fc5bebbeda2c50952892038a464
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/commit/96e2b750868a459ace4b8b68e6a6e4fb0152b9b7
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/commit/b4737180c7e597490c6363075c565fa8cf24eead
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/releases/tag/v1.7.4
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/releases/tag/v1.8.1