CVE-2026-53715

Envoy Gateway: Wasm cache ServeHTTP reads mappingPath2Cache without lock

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Sep 14, 2026
Updated
Sep 15, 2026
Reserved
Jun 10, 2026

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
gatewayenvoyproxy
  • < 1.7.4Affected
  • >= 1.8.0-rc.0, < 1.8.1Affected

References

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