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.
Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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.

History

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared F5
F5 nginx Gateway Fabric
Vendors & Products F5
F5 nginx Gateway Fabric

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: f5

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-03T03:56:36.276Z

Reserved: 2026-07-30T21:15:36.935Z

Link: CVE-2026-66362

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-02T17:57:22.186Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-09-02T16:17:18.663

Modified: 2026-09-03T13:06:00.047

Link: CVE-2026-66362

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-03T10:00:11Z

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