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.
CVE-2026-53719
This medium-severity CVE scores 6.5 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.7%, top 49% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 6.5
- EG Score
- 6.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- 30(Track)EG Risk 30/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity65% × 45%Exploitation1% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 1%
- EPSS %ILE
- 51%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 16, 2026
Last Modified
September 16, 2026
Advisory Details (9)
Auto-updated Sep 14, 2026v1.8.1
Patch available: envoyproxy/gateway v1.8.1
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/releases/tag/v1.8.1v1.7.4
Patch available: envoyproxy/gateway v1.7.4
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/releases/tag/v1.7.4commit b4737180c7e5 (envoyproxy/gateway)
Fix landed in envoyproxy/gateway commit b4737180c7e5 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/commit/b4737180c7e597490c6363075c565fa8cf24eeadcommit 96e2b750868a (envoyproxy/gateway)
Fix landed in envoyproxy/gateway commit 96e2b750868a — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/commit/96e2b750868a459ace4b8b68e6a6e4fb0152b9b7commit 5a78db82b7cf (envoyproxy/gateway)
Fix landed in envoyproxy/gateway commit 5a78db82b7cf — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/commit/5a78db82b7cf4fc5bebbeda2c50952892038a464fix github SA for June release
Fix merged in envoyproxy/gateway PR #9173 on 2026-06-05 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/9173[release-1.8] fix github SA for June release
Fix merged in envoyproxy/gateway PR #9172 on 2026-06-05 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/9172[release-1.7] fix github SA for June release
Fix merged in envoyproxy/gateway PR #9171 on 2026-06-05 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/9171Nil-dereference when SecurityPolicy targets TCPRoute without spec.authorization · Advisory · envoyproxy/gateway · GitHub
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/security/advisories/GHSA-m2v6-2jmh-4c68Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-53719(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Go(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| github.com/envoyproxy/gateway | — | 1.8.1 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 7× in last 7d / 7× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-18 04:38 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-16 19:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-16 18:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-14 21:33 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-31 07:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-26 11:25 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-23 03:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-16 20:04 UTCEG score recompute
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