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GHSA-cxpq-8v7q-cg56: Envoy Gateway: Wasm HTTP fetch decompresses gzip without output-size limit

mediumCVSS 6.5CVE-2026-53716
Vulnerability report without repro case. Repro case may be added later after harness is complete. Preconditions (4): - Tenant can create EnvoyExtensionPolicy (baseline) - Attacker hosts a gzip-bomb at a reachable URL - sha256 unset (optional field; check is post-decompression anyway) - No operator Wasm-URL allowlist (none exists in code) Description getFileFromGZ calls io.ReadAll on a raw gzip.Reader (httpfetcher.go:216) with no output bound, while the compressed input is capped at 256 MiB (httpfetcher.go:139). The bytes originate from a tenant-controlled EnvoyExtensionPolicy.spec.wasm[].code.http.url (envoyextensionpolicy.go:1077 → cache.go:248 → httpfetcher.go:147 → :233), so an untrusted tenant can point at a ~10 MiB gzip-of-zeros and force ~10 GiB allocation in the shared controller process. All candidate guards execute either before the body is buffered or after decompression. OOM-kills, restarts, re-reconciles same CR, crash-loops — persistent cross-tenant control-plane outage with PR:L/AC:L and scope change → HIGH despite availability-only.

Details

Source
GitHub Security Advisories (INTL · database · site)
Severity
medium — CVSS 6.5
Published
2026-07-16
Last updated
2026-07-16
Exploitation
Not in CISA KEV at last sync

Original advisory: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cxpq-8v7q-cg56

Referenced CVEs

CVECSIRTS overviewExternal
CVE-2026-53716coverage & exploitation statusNVD · CVE.org

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