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Istio1.28.4Networking & MessagingFeb 16, 2026

A maintenance release focused on security fixes, validation, and authorization changes across Istio control-plane and endpoint handling. It also includes operator-facing capability changes and corrections for other defects.

Action needed (1)

  • securityhighCVE-2025-61732 cgo comment parsing flaw

    This release fixes a discrepancy between Go and C/C++ comment parsing that allowed code smuggling into the resulting cgo binary.

Check if affected (4)

  • securitycriticalCVE-2025-68121 TLS session resumption validation

    Applies if you use Config.Clone with mutations or Config.GetConfigForClient.

    This release fixes crypto/tls session resumption when ClientCAs or RootCAs change between the initial and resumed handshake. The fix covers configurations using Config.Clone with mutations or Config.GetConfigForClient.

  • securityGateway deployment controller resource validation

    Applies if the gateway deployment controller runs.

    This release adds safeguards to the gateway deployment controller that validate object types, names, and namespaces before creating Kubernetes resources. The validation prevents arbitrary resource creation through template injection.

  • securityResource annotation validation against container injection

    Applies if you configure resource annotations.

    This release updates resource annotation validation to reject newlines and control characters. The change prevents template rendering from injecting containers into pod specifications.

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Istio1.27.7Networking & MessagingFeb 16, 2026

A security release addressing two vulnerabilities in cgo comment parsing and crypto/tls session resumption. The fixes are relevant to deployments using the affected Go functionality.

Action needed (2)

  • securitycriticalCVE-2025-68121 session resumption vulnerability correction

    CVE-2025-68121 corrects a crypto/tls session resumption flaw that could let resumed handshakes succeed after ClientCAs or RootCAs changed between the initial and resumed handshake.

  • securityhighCVE-2025-61732 code-smuggling vulnerability correction

    CVE-2025-61732 addresses a discrepancy in Go and C/C++ comment parsing that allowed code smuggling into the resulting cgo binary.

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Istio1.27.6Networking & MessagingFeb 10, 2026

This release includes security safeguards for gateway resource creation and pod specification rendering, along with stricter authorization for debug endpoints. It also adds a Helm configuration field and corrects a TLS configuration mapping.

Action needed (1)

  • securityResource annotation validation

    Resource annotation validation now rejects newline and control characters that could inject containers into pod specifications through template rendering.

Check if affected (2)

  • securityGateway deployment controller resource validation

    Applies if the gateway deployment controller runs.

    The gateway deployment controller now validates object types, names, and namespaces before creating Kubernetes resources through template rendering. This prevents arbitrary resource creation through template injection.

  • breakingNamespace-based authorization for debug endpoints

    Applies if you use debug endpoints on port 15014.

    Namespace-based authorization now restricts non-system access on port 15014 to the config_dump, ndsz, and edsz endpoints and to same-namespace proxies. Compatibility behavior can be disabled with ENABLE_DEBUG_ENDPOINT_AUTH=false.

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