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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.9 High

CVE-2026-6540

L7 policy bypass via unnormalized HTTP path matching

Description

Calico's Application Layer Policy (disabled by default), which enforces HTTP rules through Dikastes, fails to perform URL path normalization. As a result, HTTP requests using path-traversal segments, encoded slashes, or repeated slashes are not correctly evaluated by Prefix path rules. Dikastes authorizes the request under the permitted prefix while the downstream workload or a fronting proxy normalizes the path and serves the restricted endpoint. An attacker with network access and no special RBAC can potentially reach HTTP endpoints the policy was intended to restrict.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Tigera Calico

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 3.31.6affected

Tigera Calico Enterprise

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 3.21.7affected
  • 3.22.0 to < 3.22.4affected

Tigera Calico Cloud

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 22.4.0affected

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