CVE-2026-18675
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
Priority: 0.03
BB Relevance:
56/100
Published: 2026-08-12
Modified: 2026-10-23
First seen: 2026-10-29
Status: active
Attack Surface
Adjacent
Low Complexity
No Auth
No Interaction
CVSS Vector Breakdown
AV:
Adjacent
AC:
Low
PR:
None
UI:
None
S:
X
AT:
None
VC:
None
VI:
None
VA:
Low
Description
The dataplane token validator in kuma-cp performs an unchecked Go type assertion on the JWT kid header. A token whose kid is a JSON number decodes as a float64 and triggers a runtime panic before any signature, claims, or authorization check runs. The panic terminates the entire kuma-cp process, HTTP API, the health and readiness endpoints, and xDS. Unauthenticated access to the dataplane gRPC server can trigger the crash with a malformed token A single request is a transient interruption; sustaining an outage requires repeated requests.