GHSA-m23h-6mwm-39m8
Medium · 6.8Kong Ingress Controller for Kubernetes (KIC): Cross-namespace TLS Secret Exfiltration in Gateways with GatewayClass missing `konghq.com/gatewayclass-unmanaged: 'true'` annotation
CVSS
6.8
EPSS
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Published
May 19, 2026
CISA due date
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The record
A vulnerability in the Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) allows for the unauthorized exfiltration of TLS certificates and private keys across Kubernetes namespace boundaries. In "managed" mode (where the `GatewayClass` lacks an unmanaged annotation), the Gateway TLS translator skips critical status checks. This bypass allows the translator to fetch Secrets from any namespace KIC watches, even when a `ReferenceGrant` explicitly denies access or is missing. An actor with RBAC permissions to create or modify Gateways in a low-privileged namespace can reference a Secret in a high-privileged namespace, causing KIC to "leak" that Secret's sensitive private key material into the Kong dataplane configuration.
Affected packages
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