CVE-2025-24030
Envoy Admin Interface Exposed through prometheus metrics endpoint
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.42% · top 64% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected < 1.2.6
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/envoyproxy/gatewayGHSA-j777-63hf-hx76 (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/security/advisories/GHSA-j777-63hf-hx76 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/commit/3eb3301ab3dbf12b201b47bdb6074d1233be07bd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/best_practices/edge (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/operations/admin (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-j777-63hf-hx76 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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