CVE-2026-18673: CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Kong Inc. Kong Mesh
When kuma-dp is configured with the Envoy admin API on a Unix domain socket, which is the default, its readiness service on TCP port 9902 - bound to all interfaces - forwards almost the entire Envoy admin API to any caller that can reach the port, with no authentication. An attacker with network access to a data plane's port 9902, for example another pod on the cluster network, can read Envoy and data plane configuration without credentials: config dumps, cluster and listener lists, stats, and the mesh trust bundle. Exposure is read-only - destructive Envoy admin actions are blocked and private keys are not exposed.
CVE-2026-18673: CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Kong Inc. Kong Mesh
Description
When kuma-dp is configured with the Envoy admin API on a Unix domain socket, which is the default, its readiness service on TCP port 9902 - bound to all interfaces - forwards almost the entire Envoy admin API to any caller that can reach the port, with no authentication. An attacker with network access to a data plane's port 9902, for example another pod on the cluster network, can read Envoy and data plane configuration without credentials: config dumps, cluster and listener lists, stats, and the mesh trust bundle. Exposure is read-only - destructive Envoy admin actions are blocked and private keys are not exposed.
CVSS v4.0
Score 5.3medium
Affected software
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- Kong
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-03T15:18:30.454Z
- Cvss Version
- 4.0
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a7cbe68bf8831d539f993c3
Added to database: 08/12/2026, 18:41:44 UTC
Last updated: 08/12/2026, 18:41:44 UTC
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