Description

Envoy Gateway is an open source project for managing Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway. A user with access to the Kubernetes cluster can use a path traversal attack to execute Envoy Admin interface commands on proxies managed by any version of Envoy Gateway prior to 1.2.6. The admin interface can be used to terminate the Envoy process and extract the Envoy configuration (possibly containing confidential data). Version 1.2.6 fixes the issue. As a workaround, the `EnvoyProxy` API can be used to apply a bootstrap config patch that restricts access strictly to the prometheus stats endpoint. Find below an example of such a bootstrap patch.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-24030

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.1

Affected Products

Vendor: envoyproxy

Product: gateway

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 17.97% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-21 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/security/advisories/GHSA-j777-63hf-hx76
https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/commit/3eb3301ab3dbf12b201b47bdb6074d1233be07bd
https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/best_practices/edge
https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/operations/admin

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