Missing Authentication for Critical Function Affecting tigera-operator-1.40 package, versions <1.40.14-r0


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-TIGERAOPERATOR140-19003049
  • published20 Aug 2026
  • disclosed14 Sept 2026

Introduced: 20 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-53714  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-306  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest tigera-operator-1.40 to version 1.40.14-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tigera-operator-1.40 package and not the tigera-operator-1.40 package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

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, the xDS gRPC server in GatewayNamespaceMode, configured through provider.kubernetes.deploy.type=GatewayNamespace, installs a JWT StreamInterceptor but no UnaryInterceptor, leaving every unary Fetch RPC unauthenticated. The streaming interceptor also authenticates only discoveryv3.DeltaDiscoveryRequest messages; a discoveryv3.DiscoveryRequest used by the State-of-the-World protocol fails the type assertion and returns success without JWT validation. Any pod that can reach port 18000 can use the unauthenticated unary or State-of-the-World paths to retrieve TLS private keys through StreamSecrets, all xDS resources through StreamAggregatedResources, backend endpoints through StreamClusters or StreamEndpoints, and routing configuration through StreamRoutes or StreamListeners. This issue is fixed in versions 1.7.4 and 1.8.1.