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SCA: security update for github.com/envoyproxy/gateway (GHSA-cxpq-8v7q-cg56)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 444801

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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, getFileFromGZ in internal/wasm/httpfetcher.go calls
 io.ReadAll on a gzip.Reader without limiting decompressed output when a tenant-controlled
 EnvoyExtensionPolicy.spec.wasm[].code.http.url points to a reachable compressed Wasm payload. The 256 MiB
 compressed-input cap does not constrain the expanded size, no operator Wasm URL allowlist exists, and the
 optional sha256 check occurs only after decompression, so a comparatively small gzip stream can force a
 multi-gigabyte allocation in the shared controller. The resulting out-of-memory termination restarts the
 controller, re-reconciles the persistent custom resource, and can create a persistent cross-tenant
 control-plane outage. This issue is fixed in versions 1.7.4 and 1.8.1. (CVE-2026-53716)

Solution

Update the github.com/envoyproxy/gateway library and its related packages to version 1.7.4 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cxpq-8v7q-cg56

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 444801

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/17/2026

Updated: 9/15/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.77

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-53716

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/16/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/16/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-53716

cwe: CWE-789