BIT-ENVOY-GATEWAY-2026-53718 Envoy Gateway custom backendRef cross-namespace ReferenceGrant bypass

Envoy Gateway is an open source project for managing Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway. Prior to 1.7.4 and 1.8.1, an HTTPRoute can use an extension-managed custom backendRef to reference a backend resource in another namespace without a matching Gateway API...