# CVE-2026-54246: Skipper routesrv-no-auth: All routesrv API Endpoints Lack Authentication

- Also known as: GHSA-5587-2X54-JJ6H, GO-2026-6018
- Severity: CVSS 5.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.27.13
- Published: 2026-09-14 · Updated: 2026-09-15

## Affected

- zalando skipper: fixed in 0.27.13
- github.com/zalando/skipper (Go): fixed in 0.27.13

## Description

Skipper is an HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. Prior to 0.27.13, the routesrv component serves cluster-wide control-plane data without application-layer authentication through /routes, /routes/{zone}, /swarm/redis/shards, and /swarm/valkey/shards. The handlers registered in routesrv/routesrv.go, eskipBytes.ServeHTTP in routesrv/eskipbytes.go, RedisHandler.ServeHTTP in routesrv/redishandler.go, and ValkeyHandler.ServeHTTP in routesrv/valkeyhandler.go only restrict HTTP methods and do not authenticate callers. A compromised or otherwise attacker-controlled pod that can reach routesrv on the Kubernetes cluster network can bypass its namespace-scoped RBAC and read Ingress and RouteGroup backend URLs, filter-chain and OAuth or OIDC path details, and Redis or Valkey shard addresses across namespaces. NetworkPolicy can restrict reachability but does not remove the missing-authentication condition, and the established impact is confidentiality exposure rather than direct integrity or availability loss. This issue is fixed in version 0.27.13.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on zalando skipper, github.com/zalando/skipper, upgrade to a fixed version (0.27.13) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/zalando/skipper/security/advisories/GHSA-5587-2x54-jj6h
- https://github.com/zalando/skipper/pull/4056
- https://github.com/zalando/skipper/commit/fb3d5f98ee749d9a1dfc5df2d51ac9b82fab92aa
- https://github.com/zalando/skipper/releases/tag/v0.27.13

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