GHSA-8fv2-88gg-hm7qMediumCVSS 5.3

Envoy Gateway: Wasm cache ServeHTTP reads mappingPath2Cache without lock

Published
July 16, 2026
Last Modified
July 16, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Vulnerability report without repro case. Repro case may be added later after harness is complete.

Preconditions (4):

  • Pod-network reachability to :18002 (no auth)
  • Tenant can create EnvoyExtensionPolicy (baseline)
  • Attacker pod floods GET while churning EnvoyExtensionPolicy with distinct Wasm URLs
  • Read at :153 must overlap a write at :201/:209 (probabilistic, attacker controls both rates)

Description:

httpserver.go:153 reads s.mappingPath2Cache with no lock while httpserver.go:201/209 write it under s.Lock(); the struct uses a plain map. Writer is tenant-reachable via EnvoyExtensionPolicy translation, reader is pod-network-reachable on :18002 with per-request goroutines. Go's concurrent map read+write detection calls runtime.throw, which net/http's per-conn recover cannot catch, so the controller process exits — cross-tenant control-plane DoS. Capped at MEDIUM: DoS-only, k8s restarts pod, timing-dependent trigger.

🎯 Affected products2

  • go/github.com/envoyproxy/gateway:>= 1.8.0-rc.0, < 1.8.1
  • go/github.com/envoyproxy/gateway:< 1.7.4

🔗 References (2)