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NGINX Gateway Fabric vulnerability

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Description NGINX Gateway Fabric has a vulnerability when it is configured with Gateway Custom Resource Definition (CRD) and have an authenticated gRPC connection with NGINX Agent. A namespaced authenticated attacker with access to a service account may impersonate the authenticated NGINX Agent gRPC connection to read TLS private keys of Gateway deployments in another namespace. Impact A remote authenticated attacker may be able to read TLS private keys of Gateway deployments in another namespace. There is no data plane exposure; this is a control plane issue only. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Products
nginx-gateway-fabric
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
2.8.0
CVEs
CVE-2026-96615
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 14:09 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

NGINX Gateway Fabric vulnerability

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Oct 2026, 08:53 UTC

Description NGINX Gateway Fabric has a vulnerability when it is configured with Gateway Custom Resource Definition (CRD) and have an authenticated gRPC connection with NGINX Agent. A namespaced authenticated attacker with access to a service account may impersonate the authenticated NGINX Agent gRPC connection to read TLS private keys of Gateway deployments in another namespace. Impact A remote authenticated attacker may be able to read TLS private keys of Gateway deployments in another namespace. There is no data plane exposure; this is a control plane issue only. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

osv:BIT-nginx-gateway-fabric-2026-96615

nginx-gateway-fabric

Fixed versions: 2.8.0

Complete source record
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