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High · 7.9 CVE-2026-6540 EUVD-2026-51153GHSA-gm75-wg2c-p77x

L7 policy bypass via unnormalized HTTP path matching

Published Jul 30, 2026 · Updated Jul 30, 2026 · Assigned by Tigera

Description

Calico's Application Layer Policy (disabled by default), which enforces HTTP rules through Dikastes, fails to perform URL path normalization. As a result, HTTP requests using path-traversal segments, encoded slashes, or repeated slashes are not correctly evaluated by Prefix path rules. Dikastes authorizes the request under the permitted prefix while the downstream workload or a fronting proxy normalizes the path and serves the restricted endpoint. An attacker with network access and no special RBAC can potentially reach HTTP endpoints the policy was intended to restrict.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Tigera Calico < 3.31.6 3.31.6
Tigera Calico Enterprise < 3.21.7, 3.22.0 – < 3.22.4 3.21.7
Tigera Calico Cloud < 22.4.0 22.4.0

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