The ai-azure-content-safety plugin in Kong Gateway Enterprise skips inspection of request bodies larger than the in-memory body buffer, all…

published 2026-11-10 yesterday modified 2026-11-10 yesterday also EUVD-2026-122993

cvss: 8.2; version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.5%; EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 39%
public exploits: 0; none known

The ai-azure-content-safety plugin in Kong Gateway Enterprise skips inspection of request bodies larger than the in-memory body buffer, allowing prompts to bypass input content-safety checks.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

Kong Inc. Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.13.0.12, 3.14.0.11, 3.15.0.4, 3.16.0.1

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Exploit prediction

0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	4.0	8.2	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA	4.0	8.2	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

Kong Inc. Kong Gateway Enterprise

Classification

Weakness

CWE-636 Not Failing Securely

References

developer.konghq.com /gateway/changelog/
release-notes

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-96437
NVD CVE-2026-96437

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