Code Injection in envoy-gateway (CVE-2026-22771)
Summary
Code injection in envoy-gateway (CVE-2026-22771). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 1.5.7 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Envoy Gateway is an open source project for managing Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway. Prior to 1.5.7 and 1.6.2, EnvoyExtensionPolicy Lua scripts executed by Envoy proxy can be used to leak the proxy's credentials. These credentials can then be used to communicate with the control plane and gain access to all secrets that are used by Envoy proxy, e.g. TLS private keys and credentials used for downstream and upstream communication. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.5.7 and 1.6.2.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-22771 has been found in envoy-gateway.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. CVSS score: 8.8/10.
What to do: upgrade envoy-gateway to 1.5.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "envoy-gateway CVE-2026-22771" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-22771 (envoy-gateway) — CWE-94 / CVSS v3 8.8
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Patched: 1.5.7 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Arbitrary code execution (CWE-94) exists in envoy-gateway.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of envoy-gateway.
Severity: High (CVSS 8.8/10). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to 1.5.7.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'envoy-gateway' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'envoy-gateway' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
envoy-gatewayを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade envoy-gateway to 1.5.7ステージング環境で 1.5.7 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory github.com
- web access.redhat.com
- web bugzilla.redhat.com
- web security.access.redhat.com
- web nvd.nist.gov