CVE-2026-53718Medium· 6.4▾ SunlitEnvoy 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, an HTTPRoute can use an extension-managed custom backendRef to reference a backend resour…
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 35.2 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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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, an HTTPRoute can use an extension-managed custom backendRef to reference a backend resource in another namespace without a matching Gateway API ReferenceGrant in the target namespace. The custom-backend branch in internal/gatewayapi/route.go omits validateBackendNamespace, allowing the route-owning namespace to bind to and use the resource without the backend namespace owner's consent and violating the Gateway API cross-namespace authorization model. This issue is fixed in versions 1.7.4 and 1.8.1.
Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Affected packages:
github.com/envoyproxy/gateway >= 1.8.0-rc.0, < 1.8.1github.com/envoyproxy/gateway < 1.7.4Patched in:
github.com/envoyproxy/gateway 1.8.1github.com/envoyproxy/gateway 1.7.4Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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