6.5

CVE-2026-53719: envoyproxy gateway NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumAwaiting analysis
AliasesCGA-42w6-5fwc-7g68CGA-49pm-mwgp-r2g5CGA-5vfh-2h4c-253p
Published 14-09-2026Last modified 16-09-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-53719 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in envoyproxy gateway. EPSS estimates a 0.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 52.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.71%
0%100%
Low · +0.03 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 2
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1CGA-2JHP-X66V-3HW4

Timeline

  1. 14-09-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 16-09-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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, translateSecurityPolicyForRoute in internal/gatewayapi/securitypolicy.go dereferences a nil authorization value when a namespace-scoped tenant creates a SecurityPolicy targeting a TCPRoute and omits spec.authorization. The persistent object triggers the panic on every reconcile; recovery in message/watchutil.go keeps the process alive but unwinds the runner/runner.go handle callback, stalling controller-wide xDS and infrastructure intermediate-representation publishing until an administrator deletes the object. The data plane continues to serve the last known good configuration while publication is stalled. This issue is fixed in versions 1.7.4 and 1.8.1.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.71%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

53%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.03 pp

From 0.69% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.71%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard37 products
  • datadog-agent-7.76< 7.76.3-r41
  • datadog-cluster-agent-7.73< 7.73.3-r23
  • datadog-cluster-agent-7.74< 7.74.1-r24
  • datadog-cluster-agent-7.75All versions (No fix recorded)
  • datadog-cluster-agent-7.76< 7.76.3-r32
Wolfi11 products
  • datadog-agent-7.76< 7.76.3-r41
  • datadog-cluster-agent-7.73< 7.73.3-r23
  • datadog-cluster-agent-7.75All versions (No fix recorded)
  • datadog-cluster-agent-7.76< 7.76.3-r32
  • datadog-cluster-agent-7.77< 7.77.3-r23
Envoyproxy1 product
  • gateway< 1.7.4 | ≥ 1.8.0-rc.0, < 1.8.1
Github.com/envoyproxy1 product
  • gateway< 1.7.4 | ≥ 1.8.0-rc.0, < 1.8.1

4 vendors · 50 products

References

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