{"cve":"CVE-2026-53717","nvd":{"published":"2026-09-14T20:16:45.270","modified":"2026-09-30T17:43:24.057","status":"Awaiting Analysis","description":"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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":6.5},"cwes":["CWE-789"],"references":["https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/commit/5a78db82b7cf4fc5bebbeda2c50952892038a464","https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/commit/96e2b750868a459ace4b8b68e6a6e4fb0152b9b7","https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/commit/b4737180c7e597490c6363075c565fa8cf24eead","https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/9171","https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/9172"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:53:43.293028046+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-53717","score":0.00715,"percentile":0.53453,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-h7pq-86h8-rp5x","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-h7pq-86h8-rp5x","summary":"Envoy Gateway: OCI layer extraction allocates make([]byte, h.Size) from untrusted tar header","modified":"2026-09-21T09:40:36.157838173Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/envoyproxy/gateway","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/envoyproxy/gateway","ranges":[">=1.8.0-rc.0 <1.8.1"],"fixed":["1.8.1"]},{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/envoyproxy/gateway","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/envoyproxy/gateway","ranges":["<1.7.4"],"fixed":["1.7.4"]}]},{"id":"GO-2026-6008","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GO-2026-6008","summary":"Envoy Gateway: OCI layer extraction allocates make([]byte, h.Size) from untrusted tar header in github.com/envoyproxy/gateway","modified":"2026-09-21T09:40:36.157838173Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/envoyproxy/gateway","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/envoyproxy/gateway","ranges":["<1.7.4",">=1.8.0-rc.0 <1.8.1"],"fixed":["1.7.4","1.8.1"]}]}],"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."]}