Medium severity · published Sep 14, 2026
CVE-2026-53716
Envoy Gateway: Wasm HTTP fetch decompresses gzip without output-size limit
6.5
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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, 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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 54% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GA
gateway · envoyproxy
< 1.7.4; >= 1.8.0-rc.0, < 1.8.1 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53716
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53716
github.com
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/commit/5a78db82b7cf4fc5bebbeda2c50952892038a464
github.com
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/commit/96e2b750868a459ace4b8b68e6a6e4fb0152b9b7
github.com
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/commit/b4737180c7e597490c6363075c565fa8cf24eead
github.com
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/9171
github.com
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/9172
github.com
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/9173
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