Skipper is an HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. Prior to 0.27.13, the routesrv component serves cluster-wide control-plane data without application-layer authentication through /routes, /routes/{zone}, /swarm/redis/shards, and /swarm/valkey/shards. The handlers registered in routesrv/routesrv.go, eskipBytes.ServeHTTP in routesrv/eskipbytes.go, RedisHandler.ServeHTTP in routesrv/redishandler.go, and ValkeyHandler.ServeHTTP in routesrv/valkeyhandler.go only restrict HTTP methods and do not authenticate callers. A compromised or otherwise attacker-controlled pod that can reach routesrv on the Kubernetes cluster network can bypass its namespace-scoped RBAC and read Ingress and RouteGroup backend URLs, filter-chain and OAuth or OIDC path details, and Redis or Valkey shard addresses across namespaces. NetworkPolicy can restrict reachability but does not remove the missing-authentication condition, and the established impact is confidentiality exposure rather than direct integrity or availability loss. This issue is fixed in version 0.27.13.
CVE-2026-54246
This medium-severity CVE scores 5.7 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.3%, top 73% 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
- 5.7
- EG Score
- 5.7(medium)
- EG Risk
- 26(Track)EG Risk 26/100SSVC: 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 computedSeverity57% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 27%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 17, 2026
Last Modified
September 16, 2026
Advisory Details (4)
Auto-updated Sep 14, 2026routesrv-no-auth: All routesrv API Endpoints Lack Authentication · Advisory · zalando/skipper · GitHub
https://github.com/zalando/skipper/security/advisories/GHSA-5587-2x54-jj6hv0.27.13
Patch available: zalando/skipper v0.27.13
https://github.com/zalando/skipper/releases/tag/v0.27.13feature: routesrv allow arbitrary filter chains to secure call path
Fix merged in zalando/skipper PR #4056 on 2026-06-23 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/zalando/skipper/pull/4056commit fb3d5f98ee74 (zalando/skipper)
Fix landed in zalando/skipper commit fb3d5f98ee74 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/zalando/skipper/commit/fb3d5f98ee749d9a1dfc5df2d51ac9b82fab92aaVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-54246(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/zalando/skipper | — | 0.27.13 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 9× in last 30d)
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- 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-18 04:31 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-17 19:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-16 13:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-15 15:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-15 14:43 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-14 20:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-30 18:58 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-23 03:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-17 22:00 UTCEG score recompute
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