Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting external-dns-0.20 package, versions <0.20.0-r10


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-EXTERNALDNS020-16264362
  • published25 Apr 2026
  • disclosed23 Apr 2026

Introduced: 23 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-41246  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Wolfi external-dns-0.20 to version 0.20.0-r10 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream external-dns-0.20 package and not the external-dns-0.20 package as distributed by Wolfi. See How to fix? for Wolfi relevant fixed versions and status.

Contour is a Kubernetes ingress controller using Envoy proxy. From v1.19.0 to before v1.33.4, v1.32.5, and v1.31.6, Contour's Cookie Rewriting feature is vulnerable to Lua code injection. An attacker with RBAC permissions to create or modify HTTPProxy resources can craft a malicious value in spec.routes[].cookieRewritePolicies[].pathRewrite.value or spec.routes[].services[].cookieRewritePolicies[].pathRewrite.value that results in arbitrary code execution in the Envoy proxy. The cookie rewriting feature is internally implemented using Envoy's HTTP Lua filter. User-controlled values are interpolated into Lua source code using Go text/template without sufficient sanitization. The injected code only executes when processing traffic on the attacker's own route, which they already control. However, since Envoy runs as shared infrastructure, the injected code can also read Envoy's xDS client credentials from the filesystem or cause denial of service for other tenants sharing the Envoy instance. This vulnerability is fixed in v1.33.4, v1.32.5, and v1.31.6.