CVE-2026-96615: F5 Nginx Gateway Fabric

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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. 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 A remote authenticated attacker may be able to read TLS private keys of Gateway deployments in another namespace.  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 products

• F5 Nginx Gateway Fabric: from 2.0.0, before 2.8.0 (fixed in 2.8.0)

Published 2026-10-14. Last modified 2026-10-15.