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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2026-53717 json

Envoy Gateway: OCI layer extraction allocates make([]byte, h.Size) from untrusted tar header

published 2026-07-16 3 mo ago modified 2026-09-30 39 d ago also BIT-envoy-gateway-2026-53717 , EUVD-2026-78069 , GHSA-h7pq-86h8-rp5x , GO-2026-6008

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 53%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/envoyproxy/gateway 1.7.4, 1.8.1
  • bitnami envoy-gateway 1.7.4, 1.8.1
  • envoyproxy gateway 1.7.4, 1.8.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-53717 updated cvss 6.5

github.com/envoyproxy/gateway: Envoy Gateway: Denial of Service via untrusted OCI tar header size

  • Red Hat Connectivity Link 1 rhcl-1/rhcl-rhel9-operator, rhcl-1/rhcl-operator-bundle
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
54 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/envoyproxy/gateway
>=1.8.0-rc.0, <1.8.1
<1.7.4
1.8.1
1.7.4
bitnami envoy-gateway
<1.7.4
>=1.8.0, <1.8.1
1.7.4
1.8.1

Affected products

  • envoyproxy gateway

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.