NGINX Gateway Fabric vulnerability
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 NginxProxy Custom Resource Definition serverTokens field and the AuthenticationFilter Custom Resource Definition extraAuthArgs field are rendered directly into NGINX configuration templates without sanitization or escaping. An authenticated attacker with permission to create or modify these Custom Resource Definitions may craft values that inject arbitrary NGINX configuration directives. This is a control plane issue; there is no data plane exposure from the vulnerability trigger itself.
Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
Affected products
1Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
1- my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000161611mitrevendor-advisory
News mentions
3- F5 Patches NGINX Vulnerability That Enables Code Execution and DoS AttacksCyber Security News · Jun 18, 2026
- F5 issues out-of-band patches for critical NGINX vulnerabilitiesBleepingComputer · Jun 18, 2026
- F5 Patches Critical, High-Severity NGINX VulnerabilitiesSecurityWeek · Jun 18, 2026