CVE-2025-24030 Envoy Admin Interface Exposed through prometheus metrics endpoint
A path traversal vulnerability in Envoy Gateway allows cluster users to access the admin interface, potentially exposing configuration data or terminating processes.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-24030?
CVE-2025-24030 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in envoyproxy gateway, published on 23 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Envoy Gateway is an open source project for managing Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway. A user with access to the Kubernetes cluster can use a path traversal attack to execute Envoy Admin interface commands on proxies managed by any version of Envoy Gateway prior to 1.2.6. The admin interface can be used to terminate the Envoy process and extract the Envoy configuration (possibly containing confidential data). Version 1.2.6 fixes the issue. As a workaround, the `EnvoyProxy` API can be used to apply a bootstrap config patch that restricts access strictly to the prometheus stats endpoint. Find below an example of such a bootstrap patch.
Weakness: CWE-419
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24030?
4 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/envoyproxy/gateway and envoy-gateway. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
github.com/envoyproxy/gateway Go | All versions | 1.2.6 |
github.com/envoyproxy/gateway Go | All versions | 1.2.6 |
github.com/envoyproxy/gateway Go | All versions | 1.2.6 |
envoy-gateway Bitnami | All versions | 1.2.6 |
Products include Envoyproxy Gateway.
How do I fix CVE-2025-24030?
Upgrade github.com/envoyproxy/gateway to 1.2.6 or later.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-24030 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24030 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in envoyproxy gateway
Sources
Also known as BIT-envoy-gateway-2025-24030, GHSA-j777-63hf-hx76, GO-2025-3418.