When NGINX Plus is configured as the data plane for NGINX Gateway Fabric, an injection vulnerability exists in the NGINX configuration generator component of NGINX Gateway Fabric. User-supplied string values from the Authentication Filter Custom Resource Definition clientID or cookieName fields, or in the clientSecret field of a Secret referenced by an Authentication Filter, are rendered directly into NGINX configuration templates without sanitization or escaping.
Impact:
An authenticated attacker with permission to create or modify these resources may craft values that inject arbitrary NGINX configuration directives. This is a control plane issue; there is no data plane exposure.
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As this attack is conducted by authenticated users with Kubernetes role-based access control (RBAC) write access to the affected CRDs, the only complete mitigation is to restrict that access to fully trusted administrators only.
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| Description | Description: When NGINX Plus is configured as the data plane for NGINX Gateway Fabric, an injection vulnerability exists in the NGINX configuration generator component of NGINX Gateway Fabric. User-supplied string values from the Authentication Filter Custom Resource Definition clientID or cookieName fields, or in the clientSecret field of a Secret referenced by an Authentication Filter, are rendered directly into NGINX configuration templates without sanitization or escaping. Impact: An authenticated attacker with permission to create or modify these resources may craft values that inject arbitrary NGINX configuration directives. This is a control plane issue; there is no data plane exposure. | |
| Title | NGF vulnerability | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-76 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: f5
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-02T17:57:24.958Z
Reserved: 2026-07-30T21:15:36.935Z
Link: CVE-2026-66362
Updated: 2026-09-02T17:57:22.186Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-09-02T16:17:18.663
Modified: 2026-09-02T19:23:13.660
Link: CVE-2026-66362
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