{"cve":"CVE-2026-18674","nvd":{"published":"2026-08-17T13:16:51.820","modified":"2026-08-31T19:22:43.473","status":"Awaiting Analysis","description":"On a Kong Mesh global control plane, resources received over the zone-to-global KDS sync are attributed using the in-band, sender-controlled ControlPlane.Identifier rather than the authenticated zone identity derived from the connection. Authenticated zones can have the global control plane store and re-distribute those resources as belonging to another zone.\n\n\n\nThe result is a cross-zone isolation bypass: the holder of a single enrolled zone's credential can inject, attribute, and overwrite resources in another zone's namespace mesh-wide.\n\n\n\n\nThe root cause lives in Kuma's open-source KDS sync code, which Kong Mesh's control plane is built on.","cvss_v4":{"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N","score":7.0},"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-345","CWE-863"],"references":["https://developer.konghq.com/mesh/changelog/","https://github.com/kumahq/kuma/pull/17456","https://github.com/kumahq/kuma/pull/17458","https://github.com/kumahq/kuma/pull/17459","https://github.com/kumahq/kuma/pull/17460"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:49:10.689564601+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-18674","score":0.00558,"percentile":0.46502,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}