Cross-namespace gRPC interception via cross-kind rule precedence
Published Jul 14, 2026 · Updated Jul 14, 2026
Cross-namespace route isolation failure in AWS Load Balancer Controller 3.4.1 allows remote authenticated users to intercept gRPC traffic. The listener-rule sorter orders HTTPRoute-derived rules ahead of GRPCRoute-derived rules by kind instead of comparing specificity, so a catch-all HTTPRoute outranks a targeted gRPC route. Exploitation requires permission to create or update HTTPRoute objects and a shared Gateway listener that admits both namespaces, and it enables interception, spoofing, or denial of the victim namespace's gRPC traffic.
Summary
What happened
Cross-namespace route isolation failure in AWS Load Balancer Controller 3.4.1 allows remote authenticated users to intercept gRPC traffic. The listener-rule sorter orders HTTPRoute-derived rules ahead of GRPCRoute-derived rules by kind instead of comparing specificity, so a catch-all HTTPRoute outranks a targeted gRPC route. Exploitation requires permission to create or update HTTPRoute objects and a shared Gateway listener that admits both namespaces, and it enables interception, spoofing, or denial of the victim namespace's gRPC traffic.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-15738
- Published
- Jul 14, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 14, 2026
- Vendor
- Amazon Web Services
- Product
- AWS Load Balancer Controller
- Classifications
- CWE-653, T1557
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Jul 14, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 14, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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