REDHAT-BUG-2461257: Code Injection

Published Apr 23, 2026
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Updated

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.

Affected Software

4 affected components
Contour Kubernetes ingress controller (Contour)>1.19.0<1.33.4
Contour Kubernetes ingress controller (Contour)>=1.19.0<=1.33.3
Contour Kubernetes ingress controller (Contour)>1.32.5<1.33.4
Contour Kubernetes ingress controller (Contour)>1.31.6<1.32.5

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade Contour to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in v1.33.4
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade Contour to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in v1.32.5
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade Contour to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in v1.31.6

Event History

Apr 23, 2026
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·08:02 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software
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