Kuma is a modern Envoy-based service mesh that can run on every cloud across both Kubernetes and VMs. Prior to 2.7.26, 2.9.16, 2.11.14, 2.12.11, and 2.13.7, a kumactl profile manually configured for an HTTPS control plane without --ca-cert-file disables TLS peer verification and sends API tokens over the unverified connection. An attacker on the network path can intercept user or administrator API tokens and act against the control plane as the compromised user. The default local profile is unaffected because it uses plain HTTP. This issue is fixed in versions 2.7.26, 2.9.16, 2.11.14, 2.12.11, and 2.13.7.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-v95x-xhq5-4929 kumactl connects to control plane without verifying TLS certificate when no CA is configured
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Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000

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Description Kuma is a modern Envoy-based service mesh that can run on every cloud across both Kubernetes and VMs. Prior to 2.7.26, 2.9.16, 2.11.14, 2.12.11, and 2.13.7, a kumactl profile manually configured for an HTTPS control plane without --ca-cert-file disables TLS peer verification and sends API tokens over the unverified connection. An attacker on the network path can intercept user or administrator API tokens and act against the control plane as the compromised user. The default local profile is unaffected because it uses plain HTTP. This issue is fixed in versions 2.7.26, 2.9.16, 2.11.14, 2.12.11, and 2.13.7.
Title Kuma: kumactl connects to control plane without verifying TLS certificate when no CA is configured
Weaknesses CWE-295
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Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-15T14:52:30.085Z

Reserved: 2026-06-03T20:54:20.433Z

Link: CVE-2026-50166

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-15T15:17:16.950

Modified: 2026-09-15T15:17:16.950

Link: CVE-2026-50166

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