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.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-m2v6-2jmh-4c68 Envoy Gateway: Nil-dereference when SecurityPolicy targets TCPRoute without spec.authorization
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Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Envoyproxy
Envoyproxy gateway
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Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:00:00 +0000

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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.
Title Envoy Gateway: Nil-dereference when SecurityPolicy targets TCPRoute without spec.authorization
Weaknesses CWE-476
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-14T20:13:20.535Z

Reserved: 2026-06-10T16:43:31.241Z

Link: CVE-2026-53719

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-14T21:17:13.307

Modified: 2026-09-14T21:17:13.307

Link: CVE-2026-53719

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Updated: 2026-09-15T00:00:08Z

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