Medium severity · published Oct 14, 2026
CVE-2026-96615
NGINX Gateway Fabric vulnerability
6.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Description
NGINX Gateway Fabric has a vulnerability when it is configured with Gateway
Custom Resource Definition (CRD) and have an authenticated gRPC connection with NGINX Agent. A namespaced
authenticated attacker with access to a service account may impersonate the authenticated NGINX Agent gRPC connection to read TLS private keys of Gateway deployments in another namespace.
Impact
A remote authenticated attacker may be able to read TLS private keys of Gateway deployments in another namespace.
There is no data plane exposure; this is a control plane issue only.
Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
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 17% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NG
NGINX Gateway Fabric · F5
2.0.0 before 2.8.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96615
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-96615
vendor-advisory
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000162610
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