Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-105986 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-105986 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-105986?
- Informational severity, published 10 November 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Kong Gateway Enterprise.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-105986?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-105986 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a hosted service.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-105986?
- Check whether you run Kong Gateway Enterprise. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is an authorization bypass in Kong Gateway Enterprise's Admin API RBAC implementation. A delegated administrator (authenticated user with limited permissions) can exploit improper validation of role names to escalate privileges—either by using percent-encoded characters to bypass role name validation or by directly self-assigning roles they should not have access to. The attacker must have at least delegated admin credentials but can escalate to administrative control.
Affected products
- Kong Gateway Enterprise
Timeline
- 2026-11-10: disclosed