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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-53719 BIT-envoy-gateway-2026-53719EUVD-2026-78075GHSA-m2v6-2jmh-4c68GO-2026-6009

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

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, translateSecurityPolicyForRoute in internal/gatewayapi/securitypolicy.go dereferences a nil authorization value when a namespace-scoped tenant creates a SecurityPolicy targeting a TCPRoute and omits spec.authorization. The persistent object triggers the panic on every reconcile; recovery in message/watchutil.go keeps the process alive but unwinds the runner/runner.go handle callback, stalling controller-wide xDS and infrastructure intermediate-representation publishing until an administrator deletes the object. The data plane continues to serve the last known good configuration while publication is stalled. 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-m2v6-2jmh-4c68
Go github.com/envoyproxy/gateway < 1.7.4 1.7.4 GHSA-m2v6-2jmh-4c68
Go github.com/envoyproxy/gateway < 1.7.4 · >= 1.8.0-rc.0, < 1.8.1 1.7.4, 1.8.1 GO-2026-6009

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