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High [CVE-2026-96615] 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

This high-severity F5 advisory covers CVE-2026-96615 affecting NGINX Gateway Fabric.

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CVE-2026-96615
Affected products & platforms
F5NGINX
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Summary

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

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.

Affected versions
  • NGINX Gateway Fabric 2.0.0 before 2.8.0

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 16 days ago·verify at source

Fixed versions
  • 2.8.0

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 16 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation

Upgrade to a fixed release: 2.8.0. That is the remediation for this advisory.

The vendor advisory may list interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here. Review it before change work.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 16 days ago·verify at source

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