Answer in brief
CVE-2026-53716 records a Medium severity (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in Envoy Gateway: Wasm HTTP fetch decompresses gzip without output-size limit. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps envoyproxy/gateway (generic), github.com/envoyproxy/gateway (go), github.com/envoyproxy/gateway (go), github.com/envoyproxy/gateway (go) and additional mapped packages. Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 6.5. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps envoyproxy/gateway (generic), github.com/envoyproxy/gateway (go), github.com/envoyproxy/gateway (go), github.com/envoyproxy/gateway (go) and additional mapped packages. Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| envoyproxy/gatewaygeneric | <1.7.4 || >=1.8.0-rc.0 <1.8.1 | 1.7.4, 1.8.1 |
| github.com/envoyproxy/gatewaygo | >=1.8.0-rc.0,<1.8.1 | 1.8.1 |
| github.com/envoyproxy/gatewaygo | <1.7.4 | 1.7.4 |
| github.com/envoyproxy/gatewaygo | >=1.8.0-rc.0 <1.8.1 | 1.8.1 |
| github.com/envoyproxy/gatewaygo | >=0 <1.7.4 | 1.7.4 |
| github.com/envoyproxy/gatewaygo | >=0 <1.7.4 >=1.8.0-rc.0 <1.8.1 | 1.7.4, 1.8.1 |
Published upstream
Sep 14, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 30, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Jul 16, 2026
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.
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