Medium severity · published Sep 14, 2026
CVE-2026-54246
Skipper routesrv-no-auth: All routesrv API Endpoints Lack Authentication
5.7
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Skipper is an HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. Prior to 0.27.13, the routesrv component serves cluster-wide control-plane data without application-layer authentication through /routes, /routes/{zone}, /swarm/redis/shards, and /swarm/valkey/shards. The handlers registered in routesrv/routesrv.go, eskipBytes.ServeHTTP in routesrv/eskipbytes.go, RedisHandler.ServeHTTP in routesrv/redishandler.go, and ValkeyHandler.ServeHTTP in routesrv/valkeyhandler.go only restrict HTTP methods and do not authenticate callers. A compromised or otherwise attacker-controlled pod that can reach routesrv on the Kubernetes cluster network can bypass its namespace-scoped RBAC and read Ingress and RouteGroup backend URLs, filter-chain and OAuth or OIDC path details, and Redis or Valkey shard addresses across namespaces. NetworkPolicy can restrict reachability but does not remove the missing-authentication condition, and the established impact is confidentiality exposure rather than direct integrity or availability loss. This issue is fixed in version 0.27.13.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 27% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SK
skipper · zalando
< 0.27.13 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54246
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-54246
github.com
https://github.com/zalando/skipper/commit/fb3d5f98ee749d9a1dfc5df2d51ac9b82fab92aa
github.com
https://github.com/zalando/skipper/pull/4056
github.com
https://github.com/zalando/skipper/releases/tag/v0.27.13
github.com
https://github.com/zalando/skipper/security/advisories/GHSA-5587-2x54-jj6h
More from skipper
9.8
CVE-2022-38580
Zalando Skipper v0.13.236 is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
8.8
CVE-2026-23742
Skipper arbitrary code execution through lua filters
8.2
CVE-2026-65838
Skipper: an oversized declared-`Content-Length` body still hands OPA an empty `parsed_body`, so deny-on-presence Rego policies fail OPEN while the full payload reaches upstream
8.2
CVE-2026-65604
Skipper Incomplete Fix for CVE-2026-50197 Policy Bypass
8.1
CVE-2026-24470
Skipper Ingress Controller Allows Unauthorized Access to Internal Services via ExternalName
