CVE-2026-18674: CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in Kong Inc. Kong Mesh
On a Kong Mesh global control plane, resources received over the zone-to-global KDS sync are attributed using the in-band, sender-controlled ControlPlane.Identifier rather than the authenticated zone identity derived from the connection. Authenticated zones can have the global control plane store and re-distribute those resources as belonging to another zone. The result is a cross-zone isolation bypass: the holder of a single enrolled zone's credential can inject, attribute, and overwrite resources in another zone's namespace mesh-wide. The root cause lives in Kuma's open-source KDS sync code, which Kong Mesh's control plane is built on.
CVE-2026-18674: CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in Kong Inc. Kong Mesh
Description
On a Kong Mesh global control plane, resources received over the zone-to-global KDS sync are attributed using the in-band, sender-controlled ControlPlane.Identifier rather than the authenticated zone identity derived from the connection. Authenticated zones can have the global control plane store and re-distribute those resources as belonging to another zone. The result is a cross-zone isolation bypass: the holder of a single enrolled zone's credential can inject, attribute, and overwrite resources in another zone's namespace mesh-wide. The root cause lives in Kuma's open-source KDS sync code, which Kong Mesh's control plane is built on.
CVSS v4.0
Score 7.0high
Affected software
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- Kong
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-03T15:20:40.972Z
- Cvss Version
- 4.0
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a82fe03bf8831d539d669f2
Added to database: 08/17/2026, 12:26:43 UTC
Last updated: 08/17/2026, 12:26:43 UTC
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