CVE-2026-53716

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53716
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-53716.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-53716
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-09-14T20:15:51Z
Modified
2026-09-17T03:30:48Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Envoy Gateway: Wasm HTTP fetch decompresses gzip without output-size limit
Details

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, getFileFromGZ in internal/wasm/httpfetcher.go calls io.ReadAll on a gzip.Reader without limiting decompressed output when a tenant-controlled EnvoyExtensionPolicy.spec.wasm[].code.http.url points to a reachable compressed Wasm payload. The 256 MiB compressed-input cap does not constrain the expanded size, no operator Wasm URL allowlist exists, and the optional sha256 check occurs only after decompression, so a comparatively small gzip stream can force a multi-gigabyte allocation in the shared controller. The resulting out-of-memory termination restarts the controller, re-reconciles the persistent custom resource, and can create a persistent cross-tenant control-plane outage. This issue is fixed in versions 1.7.4 and 1.8.1.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-789"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/53xxx/CVE-2026-53716.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/envoyproxy/gateway

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway
Events
Database specific
Show details
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.7.4"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "1.8.0-rc.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.8.1"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
latest
v0.*
v0.1.0
v0.2.0
v0.2.0-rc1
v0.2.0-rc2
v0.5.0-rc.1
v1.*
v1.6.0-rc.0
v1.7.0
v1.7.0-rc.0
v1.7.0-rc.1
v1.7.0-rc.2
v1.7.1
v1.7.2
v1.7.3
v1.8.0
v1.8.0-rc.0
v1.8.0-rc.1
v1.9.0-rc.0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-53716.json"