CVE-2026-32254Kube-router Proxy Module Blindly Trusts ExternalIPs/LoadBalancer IPs Enabling Cluster-Wide Traffic Hijacking and DNS DoS
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 0.32%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 75% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
Kube-router is a turnkey solution for Kubernetes networking. Prior to version 2.8.0, Kube-router's proxy module does not validate externalIPs or loadBalancer IPs before programming them into the node's network configuration. Version 2.8.0 contains a patch for the issue. Available workarounds include enabling DenyServiceExternalIPs feature gate, deploying admission policy, restricting service creation RBAC, monitoring service changes, and applying BGP prefix filtering.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits1
References tagged exploit1 reference
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.32% · top 75% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
- affected < 2.8.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/cloudnativelabs/kube-router/v2GHSA-phqm-jgc3-qf8g (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/cloudnativelabs/kube-router/security/advisories/GHSA-phqm-jgc3-qf8g (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
- https://github.com/cloudnativelabs/kube-router/commit/a1f0b2eea3ee0f66b9a5b5c49dcb714619ccd456 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/cloudnativelabs/kube-router/releases/tag/v2.8.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-12757 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-phqm-jgc3-qf8g (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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